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The New P.S. 64 provides an answer to two questions: How can an old building be new? And, what can a public building be in an age of privatization?
The New P.S. 64 is the by-product of radical reassembly, its constituent parts a mix of old and re-constituted new. Also, while the New P.S. 64 belongs to both the students and the larger public, the architecture addresses the vastly different needs of each through a series of drawbridge-like stairs regulating access to a terraced facade.