Macquarie University was established in the 1960s on a greenfield site north west of Sydney. The campus grew quickly evoking the times through modernist forms and heavy brick and honest concrete materiality. The academic offices were closed solid wall environments. Two of the earliest structures on the campus were buildings E7A and the adjacent E7B […]

NBRSARCHITECTURE produced flexible designs and technical documentation to upgrade the Science Laboratory facilities at four schools: Asquith Boys High School, Davidson High School, Northern Beaches Secondary College Cromer Campus and Ryde Secondary College. The Department of Education’s brief was to provide specialised teaching spaces to enable the delivery of science curriculum to students from year […]

A major $300 Million project is being completed across New Zealand. For the last 3 ½ years NBRSARCHITECTURE has been design adviser to the Ministry of Education for four new schools in Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown. The large-scale project has delivered state of the art, culturally sensitive and responsive Modern Learning Environments (MLE) as part […]

Bringing schools into the 21st century through flexible, innovative spaces [PWC. APRIL 2017] “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us” – Winston Churchill Education is universally recognised as a pillar for both economic and social growth in any society. Government spending on education in Australia reflects our priority of investing in the […]

St Andrew’s Cathedral School has over 130 years of history, and is Sydney’s quintessential city school, a place as diverse, changing and future-focused as the CBD that surrounds us (St Andrews Cathedral School).  St Andrew’s Cathedral School, or SACS, has been transforming their facilities to meet with contemporary pedagogy and provide a collaborative learning and […]

As technology continues to evolve ever-so-quickly we are faced with challenges to keep schools equipped with the latest and most efficient learning tools. Most primary and secondary schools, which have been around for a number of decades, have reliable infrastructure, but simply lack spatial learning environments that are conducive to the current age of learning. […]