Dive Brief:

• An 800,000-square-foot building that once housed IBM offices is now North Atlanta High School. Not many high schools have a view of downtown from 11 stories up.
• The school system got 56 acres of land, and parking lots were turned into sports fields because students and faculty get to use the IBM parking deck.
• The 1977-vintage building is now where students attend classes – two color-coded floors to each of the four grades – and where the media center, cafeteria and administrative offices are.

Dive Insight:

There had been an annex building when IBM workers were there, but it did not fit needs as well as the main building did, and it was demolished. A new second building that was built on the campus and connected to the main building by a glass walkway has two theaters (one of them with 600 seats), a main and an auxiliary gym and music rooms.