Southside JR High...later Southside Middle, then Elementary School...Columbus, Indiana....strange design...very ascetic, from the outside, almost prison/institutional looking....Interior, precast slabs, fluted grey block, "ice-cube tray" style formed concrete ceilings.....tasteful, yet stark, common area in center...overall, interesting but ill-suited as a school...heat/cooling issues, difficulties in modernization due to concrete construction....as with most buildings of this era, no thought was given to future technological needs...as such, any chases or raceways useful to modernization are almost non-existent....resulting in a great deal of surface-mounted conduit and exposed cabling....a pity....a nice austere building, but one that wasn't designed to grow or adapt.

Designed by Eliot Noyes. What else did he design? The first IBM Selectric typewriter.