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DRAW Collective Wins AIA Pittsburgh’s People’s Choice Award for 2nd Year in a Row

Design Pittsburgh is a signature program of AIA Pittsburgh, celebrating excellence in architecture and design, and honoring those who create it. It is our opportunity as a community to publicly promote architects as critical resources and industry experts and demonstrate the importance of great design in the Pittsburgh region. This program provides an opportunity for AIA Pittsburgh members, sponsors, partners, […]

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Knoch High School addition modern, bright multipurpose space

JEFFERSON TWP — A spacious new cafe commons with digital screens and learning stairs plus a significantly larger lobby outside the existing auditorium could greet students lucky enough to attend Knoch High School when the renovation project is finished. Representatives from DRAW Collective, the architectural firm for the $35 million high school and stadium renovation

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Trinity Area School District Breaks Ground For New Intermediate School

Members of the Trinity Area School District administration and school board, along with Trinity students, gathered last week for a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site of the new Trinity Intermediate School, which will house students in grades four through six. Construction of the intermediate school is part of a $72.3 million construction and renovation project

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New Trinity Intermediate School rendering

Trinity moving ahead with $72.3 million school projects

Faced with rising construction costs, Trinity Area School Board voted Wednesday to move ahead with school construction projects totaling $72.3 million. Among the projects are construction of a new intermediate school – which will be built as an addition to Trinity Middle School – and renovations to the middle school. The district also is moving

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Eckles Architecture merges, leaves New Castle after 124 years

NEW CASTLE– A noted architectural firm that has been firmly planted in New Castle for 124 years has pulled up roots and left town. Eckles Architecture & Engineering, located in a Victorian-style house at 301 N. Mercer St., closed its doors last week after merging with DRAW Collective, a Pittsburgh-based architectural-engineering firm. The Eckles staff

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Two architecture firms in the Pittsburgh region have now become one.

New Castle-based Eckles Architecture and Engineering, which was led by principals Mark Scheller and Jeremy Beatty and employed six in total, has now joined DRAW Collective, formerly VEBH Architects. “As we continue to build for our ongoing successes, it gives us great pleasure to announce that Eckles Architecture has merged to become part of DRAW

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Hillel Academy girls high school collaboration space rendering

Hillel Academy readies additions, renovations for coming school year

Standing amid the dust and rubble of new construction, Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh Principal Rabbi Sam Weinberg remembered the last day of the 2021-’22 school year. “We ended school on a Thursday. We had all hands on deck and paid school students to carry boxes. We cleared out the second story of this building, and

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Public shares feedback on Knoch High School renovation

JEFFERSON TWP — Only about a dozen people attended the public presentation of the proposed plans for the $34.2 million renovation at Knoch High School, but they shared lots of feedback with the architect, school board, construction manager and superintendent. Cassandra Renninger, principal architect at DRAW Collective, explained the renovation plans on Wednesday night in

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New option presented for Knoch High School

Architects presented a tweaked Knoch high school renovation plan at Wednesday’s South Butler County School Board meeting that achieves the district’s goals while keeping costs within the district’s budget. “It achieves a lot of the same objectives and trims off the fat,” said Cassandra Renninger, a principal architect with DRAW Collective. Ideas included in the

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Pittsburgh Public Schools makes over Perry’s cosmetology program with the help of DRAW Collective

The halls of Perry High School trigger nostalgia for just about anyone who attended an American high school. Pennants and murals cheering on the Commodores line the main hallway. Posters with encouraging sayings hang outside of classrooms. Glass cabinets display work from the school’s best artists. But at the very top of a center stairwell

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