The design is an attempt to connect the Italianate past of the Wooster Square neighborhood to a 1961 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill "temples in a field" school.The existing school consisted of two buildings: a main two story building with classrooms, offices, pool and gymnasium surrounding a central courtyard; and a separate 250 seat auditorium building. The buildings are flat-roofed with precast exterior concrete wall panels and floor to ceiling curtain wall systems. Regularly spaced exterior concrete columns form a perimeter colonnade on all sides of the existing buildings. Our design renovates and expands the school to serve children from ages five through fourteen.

A two story addition between the existing classroom building and auditorium includes classrooms, a stair tower, a new entrance, and a covered connection between the auditorium and the classroom building. A second single story addition to the south of the existing building provide additional classrooms, administration offices, and a second entrance.