MATERIAL MATCH/Metal panels used to unify school campus' newest buildings

摘要

The Ponder Independent School District is growing and its campus is growing right along with it. In 2001, voters in the north Texas school district approved a 16 million dollars bond proposal to fund the construction of new elementary and administrative buildings on the school's campus. Those projects and a number of others have since been completed. Shiver + Associates Architects of Dallas, TX, designed both the elementary school and the administration building. They were completed in August 2004. The administration building cost 940,000 dollars to construct while the school was 8.57 million dollars. Given they are no more than a stone's throw from each other, it should come as no surprise that the two were designed to resemble one another. That was accomplished through the use of a number of materials, including metal.