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s p a c e s 4 l e a rn i n g CAMPUS RENOVATIONS
TRANSFORMING
A STATIC LIBRARY
INTO A DYNAMIC
LEARNING SPACE
By Nick Perry
HOME TO SOME OF St. Louis’s brightest young minds, the Idea Center on the
campus of Lindbergh High School transforms a static, decades-old library into
dynamic learning spaces where design facilitates community and every space
encourages exploration, collaboration, and hands-on learning.
Designed by global architecture and design firm Perkins&Will, the
two-story Idea Center brings together elementary school students and teachers
formerly scattered across the district into a con-
nected community with a dedicated place that
gifted students can call their own. The design
drew inspiration from Perkins&Will meetings
with a wide range of stakeholders: administra-
tors, faculty, parents, students. During renova-
tion and construction on the Lindbergh High
School campus, there was widespread agreement
that the aging circle-shaped building resem-
bling a modernist-style drum with a prominent
skylight in the center should be retained, but
thoroughly reimagined. Today it is a full-time
school for students in the St. Louis Regional Pro-
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