It is sad to think that a wonderful school like Sherman is been slammed by persons with such "high standards" for architecture. Where was all your nay saying during the planning phase of the school? I highly doubt that the architects that created the plans were persons unknown to the judges of this supposed contest. What kind of contest accepts nominations of sites that weren't even aware they were part of a competition? I feel this the same blindside that was perpetrated on the Logan Library.

I must say that I agree with the previous comment, and even though I am not to familiar with the Sherman Heights area it is clear that the architecture is completely lacking for this school. I understand that there are existing Victorian homes in the immediate vicinity, but that is not an acceptable reason in my view to design a school that attempts to follow its built surroundings. There are many other ways of complimenting an existing design character of a community other than just trying to copy it on to a contemporary building. Even though historic preservation is not an issue in this project, there are still a few lessons that can be learned from issues that preservationists look at. One of these key issues is making sure that the public and the users of a building are not tricked in to thinking a built environment belongs to a certain time period when it is not. Obviously this is not the case for this school since it just attempts to take on the formal features of the existing community, but it does mean that a project like this should take on its own character while being responsive to the site and the sites around it. I am surprised that HMC Architects would produce a project such as this one, but I am sure that lessons were learned and hopefully they can be applied to other projects.

This will certainly add to its "History" of imposing ridiculous "New Development Criteria" per the Sherman Heights Design Criteria Guidelines. This is doublely unfortunate, as it sits across from a wonderfully modern, Rob W. Quigley Community Center. This is the future of Sherman Heights Development given their unwaivering historic vision and realistic tight construction budgets, especially for imperative infrastructure; like schools. This could have been a wonderfully modern, cheerful school, complimenting Quigley's Sherman Heights Community Center.