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The Salt Lake City School District presented the first design plans for the West High School during an open day on Tuesday.

The newly designed West High School is both ultra -modern and deeply rooted in their 100-year history, according to the first design plans that were presented on Tuesday evening.

New academic buildings, which are planned for the opposite side of 300 west, will contain a range of colors that is inspired by the chestnut brown bricks of the old building. Through room-high windows in the new Commons area, students and employees can see the preserved facade of the original main entrance from West High, who instead welcome Panthers fans in the future football stadium.

West High students and their families on Tuesday evening were the first to see the renderings of the brand new campus, which were unveiled during an open school day.

The unveiling takes place almost a year after the voters had approved a bond of $ 730 million in order to finance “urgently needed” upgrades at the West and Highland High School. The designs for the new Highland campus in Sugar House were presented on Monday during a separate open school day.

[Read more: First look: Highland High School is getting a massive revamp. Here’s what’s planned.]

The proportion of the construction costs of West High is estimated at around 304 million US dollars, civil servants of the VCBO architecture, the company commissioned by the district who lead the school Redesign previously said Salt Lake Tribune.

The new academic buildings of West High are built in the current baseball field, light and tennis courts of the school. The future campus will also offer high-tech “learning caves” and an auditorium that can have 1,100 people.

A new sports complex is also built in addition to the academic area closer to the southern end of the property. It includes a large high school and a field house with synthetical turks.

On the opposite side of the street (where the academic buildings are currently sitting in west), the brand new football stadium will sit behind West's historical entrance, which the architects will remain intact.

A Sky Bridge connects both sides of the campus and enables the students to go back and forth safely.

“We wanted to make sure we have the honor [West’s] Inheritance, but do not replicate, ”Vcbo Architects told the tribune before the open house.

The new building should see a lot of natural light and classrooms are built for several purposes, a function that is also included in Highland's plans.

As with Highland, several teachers in the classrooms of West High can be able. That means instead of assigning a teacher instead of assigning a teacher, teachers can have a separate office and change two or three classrooms all day, similar to a college environment.

The district is already preparing to train educators for best practices for the planned system, said school district spokesman Yándary Chatwin on Monday.

Blueprint

According to architects, the construction of west is completed in two phases. The new academic buildings are built in phase 1, which is scheduled to begin in November. It is expected that it will be completed by June 2030.

If everything goes as planned, the crews will then be Start phase 2, in which students move to the new school and the existing ones are torn down. This phase is estimated until June 2032.

Overall, architects expect a seven -year timeline, but the students never have to switch to portable.

Avoiding portable was a key factor in the decision of the Salt Lake City Education Committee to pursue the current reconstruction plan.

In 2022, the school authority commissioned two separate feasibility studies for West and Highland High Schools. The studies were carried out by various architectural companies, with several community and staff meetings being held to collect contributions. The district also interviewed the residents and collected over 2,000 answers.

West High was Utah's first public high school, which was founded in 1890. The building that stands today was built in 1922.

Many residents wanted district officials to preserve the building as a whole.

The district explored this option, but found that this would have cost a share of 412 million US dollars. It would also have taken 8½ years and the students should have been in portable for the majority.

The board members completed the plans for Highland and West High Schools last December after the voters approved the bond to finance the reconstruction a month earlier.