The Mabel Fidler Building on Sydney’s North Shore is a transformational building that provides insight into the twenty-first-century school. Importantly, the new building provides Ravenswood School for Girls with a new front door and also functions as the central hub and heart of the school.
Dramatic cantilevers were created by raising the library onto the upper level, thus providing a number of covered spaces below for shelter and informal learning. In the entry courtyard that sits at the centre of the project there is a new cafe that opens out to views of the adjacent oval in one direction and inwards to views of the bridges that link the administration, junior and senior libraries, offering a blur of movement as staff and students move around the buildings.