College and community share the Performing Arts Center located in a park-like urban renewal setting in El Cajon, California. (Author/MLF)

Walla Walla College graduates and others volunteered their help to build an industrial technology complex at half the normal building costs. (Author/MLF)

Built for the multiply handicapped, the Occupational Center of Union, New Jersey, had to be completely free of architectural barriers. (Author)

A thorough renovation of the old Brooklyn Paramount Theater transformed it into a gymnasium while retaining much of the ornate ornamental work on the ceilings and walls. (Author/MLF)

A unique underground science center at Bluffton College, designed to save energy and preserve trees, rolling landscape, and other environmental features of the campus, is under construction in Bluffton, Ohio. (Author)

Columbia University converts a nursing home into a graduate residence and university offices. (Author/MLF)

The San Francisco State University Student Union is a futurist design of two steel space-frame pyramids. Each contains a stairway leading to four partial floors that diminish in size as the pyramid tapers. (Author/MLF)

A decision to upgrade and integrate all the science facilities at Wellesley College was accomplished by renovating an old building and attaching a new structure. (Author/MLF)

Design innovations at a Philadelphia school for impaired and retarded children may set new standards for special schools. (Author)

Large volume spaces fit easily into the triangular design, dictated by the site, of the Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers in New York City. (Author/MLF)

Natural light and low lighting levels with individual task level lamps contribute to a low energy use at the Sawyer Library. (Author/MLF)

Describes the damage and salvage efforts resulting from the burning of the Los Angeles Central Library in 1986, and makes several recommendations for fire and arson prevention measures and contingency salvage plans. (CLB)

A Pennsylvania school district faced an immediate need for additional classroom space at a high school. In seven months, a module containing four relocatable classrooms was installed and is considered an attractive addition to the school campus. (MLF)

Review of trends in public library buildings covers cycles in building activity; financial support; site selection; expansion, remodeling, or conversion of existing buildings; size of buildings; and such architectural concerns as flexible space, lighting, power, accommodation of computer systems, heat and ventilation, fire protection, security,…

Explains some of the finer details in the requirements and the responsibilities grantees of Institutional Conservation Program's (ICP) funding have to building preservation of historic or potentially historic buildings under the National Historic Preservation Act. (MD)