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Discovery Building, Santa Monica High School
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica High School Discovery Building
Outside the lines.
A new academic complex redefines “flexible.”
Shapeshifter.
HED, in collaboration with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, designed a dramatic new academic complex that transforms Santa Monica High School’s (SAMOHI’s) North Campus. Benefitting both school and the surrounding community, t...
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Results
2024 recipient of the Green GOOD DESIGN® Award from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design.
2023 recipient of the CASH/AIA CA Leroy F. Greene Design & Planning Awards Program Award of Merit in the New Built category.
Selected for the American Architecture Awards Honorable Mention from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design & The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Recognized as a winner of the 52nd Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards from the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) and Architectural Awards Jury.
2022 recipient of the Westside Urban Forum Design Awards.
Winner of ENR California Best Projects 2022: Best K-12 Education.
2022 recipient of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Southern California Chapter: Project Achievement Award.
2022 Juror's Choice Award at the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) annual Planning & Design Awards.
2022 shortlist for a Southern California Development Forum (SCDF) Design & Philanthropy Award.
The new Discovery Building will propel Santa Monica High School into a new experience of learning. We look forward to how the building will help us realize our current vision for learning and adapt to future learning.”
Carey Upton
Chief Operations Officer
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
A new academic complex redefines “flexible.”
Discovery Building, Santa Monica High School
Santa Monica, CA
PROJECT DATA
Outside the lines.