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	Cypress Springs High School Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, Texas

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Location: Houston, Texas
No. of Students: 3,000
Site Area: 60 Acres
Gross Building Area: 472,479 Sq. Ft
Net Building Area: 283,500 Sq. Ft.
Total Cost: $32.3 Million
Architect: PBK Architects, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Jones / Borne, Inc.
Contractor: Brae-Burn Construction Co.
Awards & Publications:
ASBO - 1998 Award of Excellence
TASB/TASA - 1998 Caudill Award
Published 1999 American School & University

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The school serves 3,000 students with a comprehensive array of academic, arts, athletics and supporting spaces in a 472,000 square-foot structure on a 60-acre site. To make this large and complex building efficient and comprehensible to both students and visitors, all the spaces are organized about a long two-story mall, lit naturally with skylights. Each of the school's departments are connected to the mall.

In addition to housing academic and vocational classrooms in the eastern and western halves of the building, the north end is dedicated to the arts, with a 16,630-square-foot, 850-seat auditorium complete with two digital control rooms and fly lofts.

Athletics are found on the south side of Cypress Springs, including an indoor eight-lane competition swimming pool with electronically-controlled timing platforms. A baseball stadium and fields for softball, soccer and football complete the exterior.