Rogers Partners' Elmer A. Henderson: A John Hopkins Partnership School (Henderson-Hopkins) has received the 2016 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honour Award for Architecture, as well as the 2016 American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA-CAE) Educational Facility Design Award of Excellence.

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Rogers Partners' Elmer A. Henderson: A John Hopkins Partnership School (Henderson-Hopkins) has received the 2016 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honour Award for Architecture, as well as the 2016 American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA-CAE) Educational Facility Design Award of Excellence.
The project is a $42 million, 125,000 square foot public school located in East-Baltimore. Lauded by AIA Jurors as being ?exuberant? and ?optimistic,? as well as containing ?welcoming indoor and outdoor spaces? that are ?deftly woven into the neighborhood? and ?well received by the community,? Henderson-Hopkins is the city?s first new public school in over 30 years.

© Albert Vecerka

Unlike the typical single-building model of a school, Henderson-Hopkins is a cluster of smaller buildings, mirroring the row houses, stoops and social civic spaces of Baltimore?s urban fabric. Students are grouped by age in these buildings, bisected by main and side streets. Each building has its ow...