Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus

The campus is faced on Amsterdam Avenue by a wide elevated plaza which features a self-weathering steel memorial sculpture by William Tarr.

[1] The same steel was used by architect Frost Associates in the curtain wall of the building,[1] the interior of which has an arrangement of perimeter corridors with floor-to-ceiling windows, leaving many classrooms on the inner side windowless.

Tensions mounted again in the early 1980s, when the board proposed merging King, which was underenrolled, and Louis D. Brandeis High School, on West 84th Street, and creating a vocational curriculum.

As the city created smaller, specialized high schools and magnet programs in the 1990s, King often drew students who were not motivated enough to apply to those.

It is a large cube 30’ by 30’ by 30’ (9 x 9 x 9 meters) made of self-weathering steel and built around the central intake unit for the school’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.