The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr Building, Pennsylvania Educational Facility, American Architecture Photos
The Shipley School in Pennsylvania
Aug 6, 2020
The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr
Design: MGA Partners
Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

The Shipley School, founded in 1894 as a girls? residential college preparatory, has become a highly respected co-educational day school.

Located in a neighborhood of educational institutions, the Shipley School focuses its pre-K-12 mission on the development of the ?whole child? through a balance of academic, athletic, and arts education.

In 2003, MGA Partners documented the physical circumstances of the campus and programmatic needs of the school in a Facilities Strategic Plan. This formed the basis for a Masterplan developed in 2005 through workshop collaboration with the Board of Trustees, Administration, and Faculty.
Combined, MGA developed a comprehensive Upper School program of space use optimization and enhanced departmental adjacencies, and a vision for integration of significant new buildings and campus planning initiatives that will enliven and unify the campus.

The first significant project to be initiated from the Masterplan was a new 26,000 square foot building that replaces the existing dining facilities, provide art and music studios as well as a flexible-use gray box performance venue for use by Music and Theater. The new building redefines and shapes the existing lawn to become an important campus place.

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