Buildings
Hastings School
| Address: | 50 Hastings Boulevard |
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| Use: | Education |
| Constructed: | 1960 |
| Other Work: | Gymnasium added to the east side of structure (1968) |
| Architects: | Pratt and Lindgren Ward Macdonald and Partners (1968) |
More Information
For many years this was a middle school named Hastings Junior High but is now a French immersion elementary school, grades kindergarten to Grade 8, with 265 students. The building was constructed by Trident Construction at an approximate cost of $331,000 according to plans developed by Pratt and Lindgren Architects.
This two-storey building of mid-brown brick has remarkable integrity and an attractive and uncommon design
Its original 16 classrooms are frankly expressed in a modular approach were the window design identifies each class along a simply double-loaded corridor; the main entrance, also unchanged, alters the symmetry of the academic wing and faces not the street, but the yard
The entire west wall is a colourful mural
The large yard is shared with the present Hastings elementary school
Design Characteristics
| Suburb: | St. Vital |
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- Mid-brown brick facade
- Modular approach to classroom layout, identified by window placement along a double-loaded corridor
- The main entrance alters the symmetry of the academic wing and faces the schoolyard
- Colourful mural covers west wall
- Schoolyard shared with Hastings elementary school