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Location: Cary, Illinois
Architect: Perkins & Will
Client: Community High School District 155
General Contractor: Boller Construction Co.
Consultants: C.E. Anderson & Associates; Mechanical Services Associates Corp.
Photographer: James Steinkamp © Steinkamp/Ballogg Photography
This 30,000-square-foot addition to a 1950s building recasts the image that Cary Grove High School presents to its community. Perkins & Will “made a virtue out of an elemental metal frame structure,” noted jurors, ingeniously extending the original building’s materials of brick, anodized aluminum fascias, and clear glass into a highly refined skin. The skillful placement of windows and the gently curved wall of the new reading room greet the school’s main drive and transform the school from banal to brilliant.
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