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The Dedication Ceremony: the New Vashon Island High School, 05/23/2014
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The Dedication Ceremony: the New Vashon Island High School Set one
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The Dedication Ceremony: the New Vashon Island High School Set one
The Dedication Ceremony: the New Vashon Island High School Set two
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The Dedication Ceremony: the New Vashon Island High School Set two
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Video: The A building demolition: Friday, 02/07/2014
Getting right down to the bitter end of the old A building. This video was shot about 4:30 pm, Friday, February 7, 2014. If they work at all on Saturday, it'll be gone.
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the B Building Demolition Days One to Three, 01/15-16-17/2014
· Day One 01/15/2014 · Day Two 01/16/2014 · Day Three 01/17/2014 ·
the B Building Demolition Days One to Three in a nutshell...
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the B Building Demolition Day One
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the B Building Demolition Day One: Set one
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First munch! |
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the B Building Demolition Day One: Set two
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the B Building Demolition Day One: Set two
the B Building Demolition Day One
the B Building Demolition Day Two
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the B Building Demolition Day Two
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After basketball, and before the first school dance in the New Vashon Island High School |
the B Building Demolition Day Three
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the B Building - A Building Demolition, 01/14/2014
You just never know what you're going to find, wandering around a high school that's going to be demolished...
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the B Building - A Building Demolition, 01/14/2014
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the B Building - A Building Demolition begins, 01/10/2014
So we're in the New Vashon Island High School right after holiday break, January 2014.
But there's this little matter of what's left of the old high school...
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the B Building - A Building Demolition begins, 01/10/2014
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The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School, 01/05/2014
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The ghosted floor plans (copyright 2012 Integrus Architects) show which parts of the new Vashon Island High School each Set covers.
The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School Set one
First Floor |
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The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School Set one
The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School Set two
First Floor |
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First Floor up to the Second Floor |
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The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School Set three
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Second Floor back down to the First Floor |
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The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School Set four
The Open House: the New Vashon Island High School, 01/05/2014
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The Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale, 01/04/2014
The A Building:
the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
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The B Building:
the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
The F Building:
the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set one
Being: the starting gun; the Office; the Lunchroom-Commons; the A3 and A4 Classrooms; Classroom Graffiti; the Kitchen; the Library
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The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set one
The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set two
Being: the Theater; Theater Graffiti; the lower Theater lobby; the trophy case; the A1 Classroom; Classroom Graffiti
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The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set two
The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set three
Being: the A2 Classroom; Classroom Graffiti; more Lobby; the Councilors offices; the A5 through Blomgren's Classrooms; Classroom Graffiti
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The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set three
The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set four
Being: Blomgren's Classroom through the A13 Classrooms, including The Riptide; Classroom Graffiti
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The A Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale Set four
The B Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
Being: the Metal and Auto Shop; Graffiti; the Wood Shop; Graffiti; the B3, B2 and B1 Classrooms; Classroom Graffiti
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The B Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
The F Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
Being: Ms Dubin's room; Wall Art; Graffiti; the Band Room; the Maintenance Building; the load-out
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The F Building: the Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale
The Vashon Island High School Surplus Sale, 01/04/2014
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Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School
Construction site 12/29/2013
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So we're getting right down to it: last day of classes before Holiday Break, December 20, 2013.
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Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set one
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Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set one
Forever Old School...
As things turned out, I didn't get back to shoot the A Building until the old Vashon High School Surplus Sale, 01/04/2014...
Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set two
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Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set two
Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set three
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Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School 12/29/2013: Set three
Starting the Big Move: the New Vashon Island High School
Construction site 12/29/2013
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Late fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 11/25/2013 |
More pavement! More planting! Stripes! Signs! What's not to love?Late fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 11/25/2013 |
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Early fall 2013:
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 10/06/2013
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Early fall 2013. The site generally is improving, but certainly looks unfinished.
Clearly all the action is happening inside.
Early fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 10/06/2013: Set one |
Early fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 10/06/2013: Set one |
Early fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 10/06/2013: Set two |
Early fall 2013: the New Vashon Island High School 10/06/2013: Set two |
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I didn't even notice that this was really open... ...so I walked all the way around past the other side of the gym. the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/06/2013 |
Before the first home football game:the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/06/2013 |
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Getting ready for the new school year
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 08/27-30/2013
The A Building and the office are still fenced-off as of Tuesday... Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
Tuesday, August 27, 2013The construction perimeter remains where it's been all summer... |
Friday, August 30, 2013And ... the construction perimeter is reset somewhat to allow access to the A Building and the office... |
Even with the fences moved in, a lot of things are still inaccessible Friday, August 30, 2013 |
Getting ready for the new school year
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 08/27-30/2013
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Where we're goingMusic Wing view design concept drawing (c) 2012 Integrus Architecture |
Where we're going: from the set Construction site 07/26/2013Music Wing view design concept drawing (c) 2012 Integrus Architecture |
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Lest we forget...
Where we came from: from the set Construction site 08/20/2013
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The A building and the office are still fenced-off, but school is quasi-open for the new year |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 08/20/2013First of the exterior finish site work: patios and sidewalks are poured out on the north side(This set has no added captions; I was extremely busy and just wanted to get these up) |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 07/26/2013A mid-summer checkin. And ... we got color! |
The construction perimeter was re-set right after school got out, and a lot of the views I've shot photos from are now simply inaccessible... |
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Serious progress. Exterior finish, if not the exact finish color, and windows! |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 06/10/2013Exterior finish, glass, and the start of what landscaping that can be worked on now...(This set has no added captions; I was extremely busy and just wanted to get these up) |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 04/03/2013The days are getting longer. Many parts of the new high school's building are starting to take shape. |
Big question: how long before the building's shell is complete, and all the changes are hidden inside? |
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Things are really starting to take shape. |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 03/02/2013More and more of the actual building footprint, and the actual mass of the building, is becoming visible. |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 02/09/2013The Holidays happen. And Winter Sports. I finally make in down in daylight in early February. We wonder about the effects of a *really* long homerun. And find the Robert Rock and other memorials are still safe. |
You can actually get the sense that there's going to be a building. |
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Rebar! Concrete! And steel! |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 12/29/2012It had been about four weeks since I'd been down during the daylight hours. Steel! |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 10/24/2012Progress! The A Building Wall gets a make-over for Homecoming, and there's HVAC ducting going down where the floor of the Theater will be! |
Seniors: Class of 2013 wall!
HVAC ducting in the floor of the Theater |
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Friday Night Lights before Football v Pemberton ;-) |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 10/12/2012You can see roughed-in plumbing for the restrooms in the Theater/Music wing, and utilities conduits laid out in preparation for pouring the slab floor |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 10/02/2012I'm starting to add in some annotations onto the photos now that there's something more going on than dirt just getting pushed around... |
Looking out across the northeast corner of the Classroom wing with the Theater on the left and the Study Commons on the right |
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The southwest corner of the Music Room. the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/18/2012 |
the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/18/2012The south (on the left) and the north (on the right) foundations for the Study Commons extend away toward the walled-in A building. At the very left is the as-yet undug foundation trench for the diagonal wall that will connect the Theater with the Study Commons. |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/11/2012I'm starting to add in some annotations onto the photos now that there's something more going on than dirt just getting pushed around... |
The southwest corner of the Music Room. the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/11/2012 |
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About 45 minutes before game time. Parking was a little scarce out front, so people arrived early. the New Vashon Island High School: Home Football 09/07/2012! |
the New Vashon Island High School: Home Football 09/07/2012! |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/04/2012 |
The lovely view coming out of the A building. o__O the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 09/04/2012 |
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the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 08/28/2012
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This was really the first big deadline: on August 28, 2012, the admin staff and the teachers had to be able to get into the VHS buildings to start getting ready for the upcoming school year. Which meant that the construction perimeter had to be almost completely reset to the configuration that would be permanent through the majority of the construction cycle. Which meant that anything *outside* of that perimeter had to either be finished, or under secure cover. Skanska made it! I got a little tour of the entire new perimeter with Sharon (Skanska: site access and safety) including a walk down to the location of the new septic system, where work was still underway and which I hadn't yet seen. I took basically two laps of the perimeter, one with Sharon and one without, and then went over to McMurray and walked back to the Stadium to get some photos from the top of the bleachers. |
The wall will be finished to completely enclose the A Building because at least one corner of the new high school will be just feet away. Construction site 08/28/2012: Set one |
Construction site 08/28/2012: Set one |
Construction site 08/28/2012: Set two |
The two new portable on the tennis courts, with the gym in the background. Construction site 08/28/2012: Set two |
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The C Building was just to the left. They've started building a temporary gravel walkway out to the Stadium the New Vashon Island High School: Construction site 08/23/2012 |
the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 08/23/2012 |
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the New Vashon Island High School - the Building C Demolition
the Building C Demolition: 07/18/2012Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Building C is ... gone...
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the Building C Demolition: 07/16/2012Monday, July 16, 2012. Building C is down to the back wall and parts of the side walls, and they're trucking debris off-Island. Plus, barn swallows, and a peregrin! |
the Building C Demolition: 07/13/2012Day two, Friday, July 13, 2012. Demolition's progressed, to say the least. There's almost nothing left but three walls of the building shell, and a bunch of sorted debris. |
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the Building C Demolition: 07/12/2012 morningDay one, Thursday, July 12, 2012. I went down in the morning, and again in the afternoon. In morning the front wall had been knocked down and the interior was being gutted. Way more time was being spent sorting and piling scrap than actually knocking anything down. |
the Building C Demolition: 07/12/2012 afternoonDay one, Thursday, July 12, 2012. By that afternoon the interior had been gutted back to the second set of classrooms. |
the Building C Demolition: 07/12/2012 afternoon |
the Building C Demolition: there and back again |
the Building C Demolition: there and back againSometimes I just like to take photos of the same mundane walk I've followed dozens of times... |
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the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 07/03-11/2012 |
Alas, poor C Building, we knew you well the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 07/03-11/2012 |
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By June 28 the whole place had a very alien, open look to it... the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 06/28/2012 |
the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 06/28/2012 |
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the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 06/25/2012 |
the New Vashon Island High School: the construction site 06/25/2012 |
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the Groundbreaking Ceremony, 06/15/2012
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The New Vashon Island High SchoolThe Dedication Ceremony:
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I'm putting up the B Building - A Building demolitions, and the final site work photos as I get them done, here: Video: The bitter end of the A building demolition, Friday, 02/07/2014
· the B Building Demolition Days One to Three, 01/15-16-17/2014 ·
· The Vashon High School Surplus Sale, 01/04/2014 ·
· Starting the Big Move: the construction site, 12/29/2013 ·
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I was approached to do photography of the Groundbreaking Ceremonies for the new Vashon Island High School, and happily agreed to do so. At that time I expressed interest in doing some documentary photography of the construction site as work progresses. I'll try to put up more photos of what's going on as I can. |
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