Aviation High School

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Address: 35th Street and Queens Boulevard
Neighborhood: Long Island City
Architect:  Chapman Evans and Delehanty
Year: 1958
Current Status: Extant
Award:  Bronze Plaque for Public Buildings
Typology:  School or College

Aviation High School is a specialized trade high school purpose built for its somewhat unusual focus. Taking up an entire city block on Queens Boulevard in Woodside and accommodating 2,500 students, the school includes normal educational facilities like classrooms and a cafeteria but also a hangar and shops where students work on donated aircraft. The complex is of a Miesian design, largely unaltered, and includes a curtain wall design with aluminum framed windows and enamel panels in a green-blue hue. A light colored brick is also employed. The main entrance, actually on 36th Street, features a large stainless steel sculpture running up the side of the building and according to the Queens Awards program is an abstraction of aircraft vapor.