The Heights, Secondary School Arlington, Virginia Building, Architect, Project, Image
The Heights School Building in Arlington
Education Building in Virginia, USA ? design by BIG + Leo A Daly, architects
Oct 29, 2019
The Heights
Design: BIG with Leo A Daly architects
Location: 1601 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22209, USA

Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Executive Architect LEO A DALY, The Heights building opens as a cascade of green terraces fanning from a central axis, addressing the academic needs of Arlington?s two county-wide school programs while forming a vertical community within its dense urban context.

Located along Arlington?s Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, The Heights merges two existing secondary schools ? the H-B Woodlawn Program and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Program ? into a new 180,000sf building to accommodate an expected enrollment of up to 775 students. BIG and LEO A DALY were commissioned in 2015 and worked closely with Arlington Public Schools (APS), WRAP (West Rosslyn Area Plan) and the Arlington community to design state-of-the-art educational facilities that support both H-B Woodlawn?s visual and performing arts-focused curricula and Shriver?s extensive resources for students with specialized educational needs. The Heights is currently on track to achieve LEED Gold.
Situated within a compact urban site bounded by roads on three sides and a portion of Rosslyn Highlands Park, The Heights is conceived as a stack of five rectangular floorplates that...