Kenneth Boroson Architects
City Plan commissioners got their first look this week at color renderings of the new $35 million Hill Central School on Dewitt Street. The Pre‑K to 8 features a fuel cell central power facility to be shared with nearby Roberto Clemente School, which is under construction.
Both schools are part of the final phase of the city’s $1.5 billion school construction program.
At last week’s City Plan Commission meeting, architect Ken Boroson showed a rendering of the façade and what he called an atrium-like “main street” that one encounters on entering. With its two-story brick façade and glass curtain walls at the entryways, the school has the appearance of both solidity and lightness, not unlike the Clinton Avenue School, which Boroson also built.
Boroson replied to commissioners’ inquiries that the drawings reflected sustained input from Hill Aldermen Jorge Perez and Andrea Jackson-Brooks and a sitting school construction committee.
Where trees had to be removed, in part, to allow sight lines for security cameras, commissioners requested vegetation such as bushes be re-planted. Demolition of the current building is planned for this spring, with completion in April 2012.
Kenneth Boroson Architects