School dining hall

Acadmeics and athletics aside, food is the one thing getting you through the four stressful years of college

How do you update a dining hall while infusing its architectural spirit inside and out? Chase – the mid-century main dining hall on the Wheaton campus – was built in 1957 and expanded in 1963 to create two entirely separate dining areas, square and round, with a central kitchen. This unwelcoming, inefficient facility required a... Read more »

Architects utilize a variety of school dining hall design trends and techniques to create spaces in which students not only eat, but also gather to relax.

Image 2 of 49 from gallery of Ayb Middle School / Storaket Architectural Studio. Photograph by Sona Manukyan & Ani Avagyan

Newly refurbished school dining hall

Kent Denver's new dining hall is in a 210-acre campus that hosts a mix of environments including sports fields, native grasslands, lakes, wetlands and a variety of wildlife. The original 8,000 square foot structure was built in 1966 and with subsequent enrollment increases it had become inadequate...

Rodney Dunn and Severine Demanet, partners in business and in life, planted the seed for their new restaurant 10 years ago. In 2007, they founded the Agrar