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Evergreen High School

Project Categories: Integrated Delivery | K-12
2025
Two high school students sit and talk in front of large, floor-to-ceiling windows. A wood column is in the center of the image just behind them, with more wood beams visible above.

Expansive windows, basalt-colored exteriors, broadly sloped rooflines and warm mass timber create a powerful Northwest identity at this 220,000 SF replacement high school campus for Highline Public Schools. The academic building and activity building are connected with a pedestrian sky bridge that allows students to move across campus without needing to brave the Seattle drizzle. The academic building’s structural system uses a combination of cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor panels, glu-lam beams and columns, and steel buckling restrained brace (BRB) frames for the greatest balance of budget and user experience impact. At the activity building, a combination of steel and mass timber framed roof areas with BRB frames and masonry shear walls helps to create a unified design aesthetic. The comprehensive high school includes program space for CTE learning, 325-seat auditorium, library, competition and auxiliary gymnasiums, PE spaces, and administrative support space.

Photos: Top row – HMC Architects (Chris Grant); Bottom row – Lawrence Anderson Studio

Gallery

A courtyard with wooden benches is framed by a large brick building with three stories of windows. At the right side, a pedestrian sky bridge is visible.
Two high school students sit and talk in front of large, floor-to-ceiling windows. A wood column is in the center of the image just behind them, with more wood beams visible above.
An aerial view of Evergreen High School, made up of several very large dark-colored buildings. Areas of the roof are topped with solar panels and the two buildings are connected by a sky bridge.
High school students work at round tables arranged in a large two-story commons space. Wood ceilings, beams, and columns create a warm and inviting space.
High school students play basketball inside a large gymnasium with a wooden floor, dark walls with green and gold banners, and a white metal ceiling.
High school students dressed in white lab coats work on projects at rows of black tables. They are in a mostly white room with large wood beams at the ceiling and tall windows along the right side wall.