Highlights a new college student center in California that serves as a physical and social hub for its campus and has helped transform a bland, bunker-like commuter school into a place that engages students, faculty, and visitors. Examines facility planning and design features; includes photographs and site plans. (GR)

Presents architectural details of a large Singapore polytechnical school where the specialties of engineering, health sciences, information technologies, and business management are organized as individual schools sharing a single campus. Includes ten photographs and a site plan. (GR)

Highlights Stanford University's 220,000 square-foot Center for Clinical Sciences, the design of which represents a high-quality architectural departure from the old building styles and creates an elegant, solar-protected gathering place for scientists. Includes photographs, sectional drawing, and site plan. (GR)

The newly completed facility represents the smallest of the three prototype vocational schools. (Author/MLF)

The Center represents the medium size prototype design for the state. (MLF)

Learning stations common to many programs are shared in this vocational school that serves 12 suburbs of Boston. (MLF)

A vocational school built on a rural site at the edge of Cape Cod serves four towns. (Author/MLF)

Two identical schools employ the four major subsystems approach established by the SCSD program: structure, ceiling/lighting, environmental, and partitions. (Author/MLF)

Describes how Princeton University transformed a plaza between two academic buildings from a vacant lot into a functioning courtyard. Discusses the architectural planning and design development and includes floor-plan drawings. (GR)

Discusses Emory University's (Georgia) library addition that was designed and constructed to bridge a ravine while connecting with its tall concrete neighbor. Examines a design that physically mitigated vast differences in structural height while redirecting attention towards the original quadrangle and integrating multiple library functions into…

Presents a business school design in Mexico, whose spiral building sits atop a parking structure creating a compact, symbolic form for an arid urban landscape. Includes seven photographs, a floor plan, and sectional drawing. (GR)

Describes how architects designed a school that could take advantage of California's temperate climate. Photos and a floorplan are included. (GR)

Illustrates how the University of Toronto combined the modernist architectural typologies of perimeter block and the skip- stop plan to create a dormitory that served as a gateway to its campus. Photos and a floor plan are included. (GR)

A multipurpose fieldhouse cost less than comparable gymnasium space. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (MLF)

This 3,000-student school covers 11 acres of land on its rural site and is one of the largest vocational schools in the nation. (Author)