School: Brisbane Grammar School
Project:  STEAM Precinct
Architect: Wilson Architects
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones 

The Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) STEAM Precinct exemplifies innovative educational design, offering valuable insights for educators and educational planners. Key features include: 

Integrated Multidisciplinary Learning: 
The facility unites Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, promoting a holistic approach to education that encourages the sharing of ideas across these disciplines. 

Flexible Learning Spaces: 
Classrooms are designed to support various teaching methods, allowing seamless transitions between theoretical instruction and practical application. This adaptability enhances lesson flow and maintains student engagement. 

Innovative Architectural Design: 
The precinct features a four-story high ‘incubator’ space with suspended group study pods, known as ‘petri dishes,’ which foster creative thinking and collaborative learning. 

Recognition for Excellence: 
The design has been honoured with the Jennifer Taylor Award for Educational Architecture, highlighting its significance in modern educational environments as well as the inter-national Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) for educational design. 

Visiting the BGS STEAM Precinct provides educationalists with a firsthand experience of a cutting-edge facility that effectively integrates multidisciplinary learning, flexible spaces, and innovative design to enhance student engagement and educational outcomes.  

School: Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Project:  Science Learning Centre
Architect: m3architecture
Photographer: Christopher Frederick Jones

Delivered amidst the turmoil of 2020, this project is a dedication to the importance of engaging young female minds in the sciences. 

It incorporates ‘teachable moments in science’, most notably the funnel-like diagram of the curvature of spacetime, a concept largely attributed to Einstein, used to organise the centre of the building and draw people up into the sciences. This, and other ‘teachable moments’, offer a daily reminder of scientific phenomena. 

 The building contributes to the school, conceived as a small city in its own right, and to the city in conversation with other significant nearby institutions