Nigel-Peck

Nigel Peck Centre for Learning and Leadership, Melbourne Grammar School

The Nigel Peck Centre for Learning and Leadership is a 5-level facility designed as a series of inter-linked pavilions that continue the scale and rhythm of the school’s existing frontage to Domain Road in a uniquely contemporary style. Each link is glazed, encouraging visibility through to the campus interior. The main entry frames a view of the bluestone Quadrangle building.

The project was completed early in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the school and houses the junior and senior school library with facilities for staff and students, a 226-seat lecture theatre, classrooms, IT labs, seminar rooms, rare book storage facilities, the consolidated IT server room and security hub for all campuses, property and finance department administration offices, and the refurbishment of various buildings including the staff/student dining hall and Quadrangle building facades.

CLIENT

Melbourne Grammar School

COMPLETED

July 2008

ARCHITECT

John Wardle Architects

AWARDS

2008 MBAV Excellence in Construction Award, Commercial Buildings $10M - $20M

2008 RAIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Victorian Architecture Medal.

2008 RAIA Victorian Architecture Awards, William Wardell Award for Public Architecture.

2008 Premier's Design Mark for Cultural Architecture Award

2009 Design Institute of Australia Awards - Best of State, Commercial Design.

2009 Design Institute of Australia Awards - Award for Public Design.

2009 Design Institute of Australia Awards - National Award for Interior Design, Excellence & Innovation.

2009 Design Institute of Australia Awards - Glass Industry, Veridian Vision Award.