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uildings is good for cities, because recycled buildings help preserve the integrity of streets and neighborhoods. It is very enriching [for the city] to have places that are reused over time in different ways, rather than build on virgin land, she said. It39。 5 Greene, was an even more delicate project. Architect Pica and his partner Maureen Sullivan restored several walls that had been removed in an earlier remodel and found ways to install modern fire sprinklers and smoke detectors with minimal intrusion to the woodlined walls. More often, however, adapting a building into a school requires radical rebuilding. Consider a pair of 40yearold office buildings in Santa Monica that Crossroads School converted into elementary school classrooms in 1997. Built for a nowdefunct aerospace pany, the buildings were enormous, featureless boxes of concrete block with few windows. Marching orders to Pica and Sullivan were to transform these unfriendly buildings into the little red school house—— a little red bungalow covered in vines,39。” 文章來(lái)源: 《 洛杉磯時(shí)報(bào) 》 , 2020年, 8 月 16日 原文 : A New School of Thought Morris Newman When Paul Cummins looked at a ratinfested garage in an industrial area of Santa Monica a few years ago, he envisioned a library. When he drove by an abandoned minimall near Belmont High School, he saw a charter school for innercity children. And when Cummins walked through obsolete aerospace buildings from the 1960s, he saw classrooms for kindergartners. Cummins, president of Crossroads School and New Roads School—— private schools in Santa Monica—— has put together sprawling urban school campuses for both during the past three decades, largely by reusing older buildings. He also played an advisory role in the creation of the campus of the Camino Nuevo charter school, a public school near downtown . fashioned out of a minimall. 4 Cummins notes with pride that none of his school conversion projects have displaced people from their homes or businesses, unlike some public school projects. Cummins is not alone in his desire to recycle existing architecture into schools. The practice has bee a specialty of a handful of local architects, and several of their projects have won design awards. Interest in the conversion of existing buildings into schools is gathering particular momentum in California, where school construction is a matter of urgency. Statewide, public school districts must somehow build 344 schools in the next five years, according to the state Department of Education. Los Angeles Unified School District must build 85 new schools in the next six y