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Dover High School
Client: Dover City Schools
Location: Dover, Ohio
  • A new 174,000sf high school designed for students in grades 9-12.
  • A three-story academic wing.
  • A 1,000+ seat auditorium.
  • Indoor/outdoor learning stairs in commons area with floating media center.
  • A shared sunken courtyard and interior dining commons allows for flexibility and blurs the boundaries between academic, extracurricular and social learning opportunities.
Design Awards: 2021 Grand Prize – Learning By Design, Architectural & Interior Design Awards; 2022 Merit Award – Cincinnati Design Awards
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Architecture|Interior Design

Shaped around people, the award-winning design of Dover High School delivers an open, flexible and accessible environment with something for every student. Built on the site of the existing 1915 high school, the new building navigates the more challenging portions of the available site and responds with innovative ways to connect the students to each other, and to the community beyond.

"The SHP team and the services they provide are well beyond just designing a school. SHP staff spent countless hours listening to our personnel and community members to grasp the collective vision."
– Carla Birney, Former Superintendent, Dover CSD
"Flexibility has become a buzzword synonymous with 21st Century design. But at Dover, we didn't just design to be flexible, we aimed to be future-proof."
– Jeffrey Sackenheim, President, SHP
“It’s immensely gratifying to tackle a problem this complex and turn it into such an elegant, sophisticated and yet practical space.”
– Jeff Parker, Director of Visioning, SHP

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