Richard & Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School, Argo Community School District 217, Summit, IL awarded Outstanding Project from Learning By Design Magazine

Richard and Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School has received an Outstanding Project Award for excellence in educational facility design in the fall 2018 edition of LEARNING BY DESIGN, the premier source for education design innovation and excellence.

The Richard and Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School has been recognized by Learning By Design magazine for its architectural and interior design and for having next generation benchmark type design and planning features worthy of imitation.

LEARNING BY DESIGN’s distinguished fall 2018 jury of eight architects and end-user’s applauded DLA Architects, Ltd. for its accomplishment in designing the Richard and Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School. All projects included in this edition are blind peer-reviewed. The jury discusses and looks for in each project’s unique and or new concepts being implemented to improve education facility building design.

Projects such as the Richard and Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School are scored on six measures: Innovation, Community Need, Interior Design, Sustainability, Functional Design, and 21st Century Learning. The Richard and Sharon Portillo Performing Arts Center Addition at Argo Community High School was deemed by the jury to have met or exceeded the majority of such crieteria.