"The Phillips Exeter Athletics Facility accommodates a swimming pool, gymnasium, two ice hockey rinks, twelve squash courts and support spaces including lockers for one thousand students. A three-level skylit circulation spine -- attentuaed, structurally expressive and nave-like, connects all of the athletic facilities, and facilitates the movement of 1,700 spectators to and from their seats in the sports hall.

"The building, wrapped around an existing gymnasium, is connected by elevated passageways to a second building. The entire complex is intended as an expandable network, able to accommodate subsequent programmatic growth."

— Alex Krieger, ed. The Architecture of Kallman McKinnell & Wood. p44.

"At Exeter . . ., the roof trusses are upside down, if structural logic and economy of materials would dictate. The observer's eye, however, supports the illogic of the construction; "right-side up" trusses would look far less convincing in supporting a roof suspended beneath them."

— Alex Krieger, ed. The Architecture of Kallman McKinnell & Wood. p13.

Details

"Fifteen weathering steel trusses spanning 110 to 130 feet, measuring 10 feet in width by 16 feet in depth, and weighing between 18 and 22 tons each. . ."

Alex Krieger, ed. The Architecture of Kallman McKinnell & Wood. p. 44.