Lynnewood Students Have a Chat With the Architect Who’s Designing Their New School

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Architect Ryan Orr fields questions from students. Image via Haverford Township School District.

Lynnewood Elementary School students got to learn about the new school being built on their property from the architect who’s designing it, writes Linda Stein for the Daily Times.

Ryan Orr, 29, with KCBA Architects of Hatfield, talked with third, fourth and fifth graders Nov. 26 about architecture and the new $34.2 million school being built next door to their current school.

As Orr spoke, workers in hardhats scurried around the steel beams that form the skeleton of the new 89,700 square-foot Lynnewood Elementary that will eventually house 700 students.

“I’ve been part of lots of different projects, from elementary schools, to middle schools to high schools, police stations, fire departments, churches. As an architect you get so see a lot of different building types,” he told the students.

The new building will have an elevator and two wings—a gym and cafeteria in one, classrooms in the other, connecting in the main lobby where the school office will be located.

The old school from the 1950s will be razed and the land converted to athletic fields, parking and drop off areas.

The new school is expected to open in the fall of 2021.

Read more about Orr and the new school here. 

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