The Harry T. Stewart Senior School

Queens, New York

Firm

Ciardullo Associates

Client

New York City School Construction Authority

Area

47,100 sq.ft.

Total Cost

$29,100,000

Completion Date

09/2016

Associated Firms: DVL Consulting Engineers, AKRF, EME Group, Tectonic Consulting Engineers, Ostergaard Acoustical Consultants, Caso & Associates, VJ Associates

Design team: John Ciardullo, Charles Heaphy, William Riley, Georgia Stokes, Kyunghee Lee, Jean Coster, Joan Hyun, Brian Anderson, George Varthalamis

PS 92Q—Harry T. Stewart Senior School—prides itself on an academic environment that teaches respect for diversity and intolerance of indifference. A community-school partnership provides guidance for students to become valued members of a global society.
In an effort to provide needed seats and expand this successful school program, planners pursued an addition to the existing building at PS 92Q. The design approach was to build an addition connected with a glass link to the existing school. The link forms a new entrance lobby and commons at each floor. Situated at the junction between the existing building and the addition, the ideally positioned link becomes the school’s new entrance lobby and provides access to a revitalized play yard.
The addition and existing building are distinct structures that complement each other, give the school a density more suited for the urban neighborhood, and form a larger whole that includes all the necessary amenities for this Queens neighborhood.