Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
Six months later and a few hundred yards away, the community opened a new one-room schoolhouse — superficially identical but, within closely held design traditions, as architecturally different as possible from its predecessor.
It was among the first prefabricated buildings, designed to replicate a Swedish schoolhouse.
Developing her own variations on traditional designs, like Log Cabin and Schoolhouse, Mrs. Adams created quilts that are a feast for the eye.
The five alternative designs are assessed for a schoolhouse project in Cambodia requiring easy construction, identified by our theoretical model.
They did not say a word about the preservation of their ancient schoolhouse, and entries in an unsuccessful competition to design a building for the site show no attempt to include the 1786 structure.
The Jabel Mukaber school is one of many in the East Jerusalem area illegally annexed by Israel in 1967 that meet in converted apartment buildings rather than structures designed as schoolhouses due to a long standing pattern of neglect in education and other services towards the Arabs who make up one third of the population of the city.
One feature that sets this structure apart from most rural schoolhouses of the day is the building's design.
Popping in and out of her eclectically furnished studio, designed with suitably offbeat touches by the Schoolhouse's always reliable John Pollard, these men are meant to provide a comic parade of male inadequacy.
("I don't get this whole technology thing," he growls in his office. "Gears, circuits, microchips -- rubbish!") Mr. Miller has also given the show a stylish, retro visual design that will be familiar to anyone who remembers "Schoolhouse Rock".
