PEGS Junior Boys School - Essendon, Victoria, Australia
Posted by: themd
S 37° 45.227 E 144° 55.227
55H E 316802 N 5819466
Federation and Edwardian influenced silhouette school building designed by McBride, Charles, Ryan architects.
Waymark Code: WMCB7C
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 08/18/2011
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The building is designed to be sensitive to the local residential district.
The silhouette of a Federation Home, enhanced by black glazed bricks; it is up-scaled, extruded and sliced.
The front of the building might be described perhaps as a haunted house, the centre (the extrusion) is vaguely a Shinto Shrine, while the striped Essendon brickwork of the rear (which interfaces with the schools ovals) reinforces the building's location and forms the robust grandstand.
Within this shape are two floors containing new classrooms and teaching spaces.