学校外文翻译--新学校的思想(编辑修改稿)

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mbers. But while some see buildings in longdeveloped urban areas as raw material for new classroom space, many public school officials locally dispute whether such conversions are less expensive and therefore more viable than new construction. Still, LAUSD, which has not relied on rehabs in the past, is looking at properties for school makeovers. Recently, the school board agreed to buy an office building in Sun Valley as the site of a new high school, and officials are exploring the possibility of building high schools in the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce building in downtown Los Angeles, as well as a 17story parking structure at 17th and Grand Avenue owned by Maguire Partners. Converting older buildings into schools, however, can involve tons of technical challenges, according to architect Joseph Pica, principal of Los Angelesbased Pica amp。 Sullivan. Older buildings often need substantial seismic upgrades to meet today39。 s building codes. They also need new plumbing and electrical conduits for puters and Inter hookups, as well as safety features, such as smoke alarms and fire sprinklers. In some cases, school conversions do not require changing the form of the original building, such as the religious classrooms in the landmark Wilshire Temple in the MidWilshire area, which have bee a middle school for Camino Nuevo. At the Bahai Temple in Baldwin Hills, New Roads School persuaded the congregation to build a new wing to serve as both a middle school and a new social hall for the temple. This kind of conservative makeover also worked with two houses in Pasadena, which have bee classroom and administrative space for Westridge School, a private prep school for girls. Nestled in a highend residential neighborhood, the school bought and redesigned a neighboring Tudorstyle home, with classrooms on the second level and administrative space below. Embarking on a Delicate Project. The conversion of the former Pitcairn House, a 1906 house by ArtsandCrafts masters Greene amp。 5 Greene, was an even more delicate project. Architect Pica and his partner Maureen Sullivan restored several walls that had been removed in an earlier remodel and found ways to install modern fire sprinklers and smoke detectors with minimal intrusion to the woodlined walls. More often, however, adapting a building into a school requires radical rebuilding. Consider a pair of 40yearold office buildings in Santa Monica that Crossroads School converted into elementary school classrooms in 1997. Built for a nowdefunct aerospace pany, the buildings were enormous, featureless boxes of concrete block wit。