Connecticut School Earns Award

The award received by KG+D Architects is the AIA WHV Honor Award for their collaboration with the Eagle Hill School, in Greenwich, Conn. A new community room replaced a limiting theater with a 350-seat multipurpose space that can utilized for assemblies, events and performances as well as indoor recess and athletic activities. The school’s program is specialized for students with language-based learning disabilities and utilizes an approach based in the close collaboration between students, parents and teachers. As such, a multipurpose space to house this community was essential to the school’s programming.

KG+D is a general practice architectural firm that specializes in listening, with a complement of talented individuals with the creativity and experience required to translate our client’s visions into skillfully executed architecture. As a team, we firmly believe that listening, the first word in our design philosophy—Listen. Imagine. Build—is key for the success of all our projects. KG+D has been in the practice of listening and architecture for 23 years. Founded as Kaeyer, Garment + Davidson in 1994, the firm has built upon a well-established legacy of more than 75 years of superior services to public and private clients throughout the region. As a firm, our mission is to design and build the places you leave your home for everyday—be that a school, office, library, community center, municipal facility or recreational center. KG+D designs that places you live, learn work and play.

Eagle Hill School

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