Recent Projects
In 2003 BGGS and m3architecture began creating plans for a new Creative Learning Centre. The master plan for the school incorporated a new learning space for the school's 4 main creative departments. During the construction of the CLC more than 6000 cubic metres of earth were excavated, 4198 cubic metres of concrete and 484 tonnes of steel have been used in the creation of this iconic development. After 3 years of planning and just over 18 months of construction The Cherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre opened on Grammar's Gregory Terrace campus in May 2007. The Creative Learning Centre (CLC) increased the learning space available to BGGS students by 25%. The $25 million dollar building has 6 stories housing music, drama, computer technology classes and art facilities in addition to introducing a new gallery space and staff rooms. The building is visible from within the BGGS campus, from the inner city bypass and from Brisbane Grammar School. Also in this building are a new cafeteria and cafe, which were opened to replace the old cafeteria.
The building in which the old cafeteria, as well as music rooms, were housed were demolished to make way for a new twenty five meter heated pool. This pool was built on steel poles to allow for an undercover area under the pool. The pool is used for the swimming lessons as part of the school's physical education curriculum, whilst also providing a training area for the swimming and water polo teams. The pool was opened in November 2009.
Read more about this topic: Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Famous quotes containing the word projects:
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)