School: St Joseph's Nudgee College
Project:  Hanly Learning Centre
Architect: m3architecture
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones 

The Hanly Learning Centre won the AIA National Award for Education Architecture in 2017 and was also awarded the overall winner of the School Library Category in the 2017 ALIA Library Design Awards.

The Learning Centre offers diverse learning settings and has elevated the relevance of the library on campus, raising the profile of teaching and learning in a school known for its sporting prowess. The building is necessarily monumental: an expression of the contemporary priorities of the College in the context of the historic Treacy building and hallowed Ross Oval. 

School: St Rita's College
Project:  Trinity Centre
Architect:  m3architecture
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones 

The building was modelled based on logic. Though its pragmatism offered satisfaction, it awaited fulfillment. 

One evening, St Rita emerged from the south elevation, the façade transfigured from pragmatism to attribution – RITA. 

This revelation inspired similar interest in the transfigure-able potential of the north façade, where just as im-probably as the south, ‘nano’ was revealed. Nano Nagle is the Foundress of The Sisters who established St Rita’s in 1926.

Together RITA and nano forge the Trinity Centre. The two names come together in the building, defining teaching and learning spaces resulting in an idiom for the past, present and future.

School: Mount Alvernia College
Project:  LaVerna Building, Anthony Building and La Forresta
Architect:  m3architecture
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones 

Mt Alvernia College is a remarkable Franciscan girl’s school in suburban Brisbane. St Francis is Patron Saint of Flora and Fauna, and now around 800 years since his death, his message seems as relevant as ever. 

The Master Plan for the College conceived of buildings (including administration, classrooms, Labs, home economics and tuck shop) as subservient backdrops to gardens. 

La Foresta is the main entrance to the College, offering daily experiences of gardens in bloom, beds lying fal-low, native bees swarming the hive, chickens cultivating the earth… In return, educational, social, emotional and spiritual nourishment is returned in abundance.