Grammar Gazette - Issue 1, 2024

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The BGGS Junior School T A KES SH A PE CONSTRUCTION COMMENCES T here’s a sense of anticipation amongst the School community, as work commences on the new Junior School building and we start to see the tangible reality of a new home for our youngest Grammar girls come to life. The existing property at 89 Gregory

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m3architecture has designed a façade that incorporates many of the iconic features of the School’s Main Building, including signature elements from the Senior Campus—honouring the history of the School. The inclusion of the white picket fence bordering the Junior School mirrors the familiar, recognisable Senior School fence and connects us, visually, as one School.The open balconies will create a sense of expansiveness and connection to the Senior campus, and green spaces will offer opportunities for the girls to explore the natural environment through hands-on learning experiences.

The Junior School will contain generously proportioned classrooms, a spacious library, canteen, and specialist learning spaces for Science, Art, and Music. It will be a space that enables our future students to grow in their individual interests, and discover new areas of curiosity, to best prepare them for their experience in the years of schooling ahead. The Junior School will be accessible only to staff, students and families, with staff supervision and security in place. Maintaining a relationship between the building and the Senior Campus was crucial to the design, and crossing

Terrace, formerly known as Ruth Fairfax House, will undergo a redevelopment designed by m3 architecture and managed by Hutchinson Builders. Construction is now underway, beginning with the structural demolition of balconies, façade and roofing, and the project set for completion by the end of 2025.

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GAZETTE • ISSUE 1, 2024 ISSUE 1, 2024

BRISBANE GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL