Abraham Joshua Heschel High School New York, New York Once an industrial building near Lincoln Center, the new Heschel High School building completes the nursery-12 mission of this progressive Jewish day school. After programming all of Heschel’s facilities, Helpern Architects gutted the four and a half story, 45,000-s.f. building, added two stories, and transformed the structure, especially the façade, increasing square footage by a third, to 60,000-s.f. The conversion allowed Heschel to increase its total enrollment from 489 to 800 students. The building was included in the 2005 New York Now exhibit at The Center for Architecture.