Replacing a 1950s-era school, the new John Hancock College Preparatory High School forms a community hub within Chicago’s Clearing neighborhood.

A transformative upgrade and expansion of the 120-year-old school building was aimed at boosting enrollment and enhancing services to students.

Mitigating hazards during demolition and the site’s residential location tested the team on the rebuild of Cohen College Prep High School.

New school features bright, daylit spaces designed and built through careful collaboration.

Squeezed into a narrow tract of land 1,000 ft from the Mississippi River, the team building the $39-million New Brusly High School faced four hurricanes, 10 months of historically high river levels and a tornado that destroyed their structural steel fabricator’s shop.