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May 29, 2025
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by Gardner Wetherill

Veritas – Marist College Canberra

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text]Veritas marks the first stage in the implementation of the Marist College Canberra Master Plan. Designed as a leading Science and Performing Arts precinct, Veritas thoughtfully integrates the elements to support teaching and learning, faith, and movement into a single cohesive built form.   The building incorporates: - Science: Wet Laboratories plus ancillary spaces - Performing Arts:  Facilities for dance, drama, ensemble, music including a drama cube - PDHPE spaces connecting to the ovals - Changing facilities - Respectful Staff environments   Architecturally, the design expresses grounded simplicity — solid foundations that seem to grow from the earth, balanced by light, floating elements supported on slender columns. A variety of textures and tones suggest rhythm and movement, subtly referencing the wavelengths found in music and science.   The design quietly references the Marcellin teaching of ‘the living stream’, weaving moments of faith throughout the precinct alongside purposeful spaces that encourage industrious learning and engagement with the surrounding landscape.   Honest. Kind....

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May 1, 2025
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by Gardner Wetherill

Woonona Aged Care Village

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text]Set in a coastal hinterland at the foot of the escarpment, the IRT Woonona proposal reimagines the site as a contemporary senior living environment. New independent living residences, a social and wellbeing centre, a clubhouse, and a café are introduced to foster connection, community, and belonging, while the existing Flametree RACF, Camelia Lodge, and the heritage-listed Bluegum Sanctuary are retained within a renewed landscape precinct.   Working together with Team2 Architects, GW. created a humanist approach to the architecture, with environmental initiatives developed in collaboration with Indigenous consultancy. Gentle curves, tactile materials, and a warm coastal palette define the built form. Considered layers of linear brickwork, sandstone plinths, and timber textures shape the rhythm and modelling of the façades. The architecture is embedded within the landscape, creating a place of familiarity, comfort, and longevity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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Shore Grammar School Master Plan Competition Site Render
May 19, 2025
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by Gardner Wetherill

Shore Grammar School Master Plan Competition

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text] Guided by the values of engagement, connection, and inspiration, our entry for the Shore Grammar School Master Plan set out a long-term vision that honours 135 years of legacy while embracing contemporary educational pedagogy. Spanning the North Sydney and Northbridge campuses, the plan proposed a staged framework to enhance learning environments, support wellbeing, and improve campus legibility.   With a focus on daylight, material warmth, and acoustic comfort, the architectural response was framed to support both direct instruction and collaborative, student-led learning. In key new buildings, sustainability is embedded through the use of Cross Laminated Timber, while Shore’s chimneys and lanterns were reimagined as passive design elements that enable natural stack ventilation and contribute to the architectural expression.   Outdoor learning spaces and circulation strategies improve wayfinding and reinforce a sense of spatial continuity. At the heart of the plan, the School Chapel remains a symbolic and spatial anchor—reflecting Shore’s enduring commitment...

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May 13, 2022
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by Gardner Wetherill

Anderledy Lodge, Mary Mackillop Place

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text]   Following in Mary MacKillop’s footsteps, Mary MacKillop Place is an oasis within the North Sydney business district – a place of pilgrimage, inclusion and welcome.   Created as a modern addition to this urban sanctuary, the new Anderledy Lodge complements the surrounding historical context of Mary MacKillop Place.   Viewed from within Mary MacKillop Place, Anderledy Lodge sits modestly within the larger scale North Sydney CBD backdrop, allowing Alma Cottage to take centre stage. From the William Street frontage, its scale provides a transition from the existing buildings on the corner of Mount Street, to the taller buildings of the adjoining School.   The elegant building façade is softened by cascading landscape treatments, including mature tree plantings, between the sandstone wall, punctuated linear Livingstone brick wall inserts and the façade. The building displaying a certain unassuming honesty; it doesn’t compete with the heritage buildings for attention.   This project fulfills a vision to deliver an architectural...

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March 16, 2020
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Macquarie Park Mausoleum

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text] The Mausoleum of the Holy Way provides the community with a tranquil retreat for mourning; a place of rest and quiet reflection.   The architecture evokes positive memories and sensory well-being, with the familiar sounds of moving water, as well as the visual and aromatic pleasure of landscape.   Lightly resting on a rhythmical structure, an angular skillion roof defines the space. Allowing access to fresh air, shade and dappled light, the structure becomes the transition between public and the sanctuary, where a processional Olive Grove leads your eye to the XII Station of the Cross.   Symbolically, “The Crucifixion” acts as the centre point of the Mausoleum design, intersected by the Stations of the Cross Walk, which joins all the elements of the composition in a connective dialogue.   As you move through the radiating crypts and columbaria, the palette of rich natural materials, textures and colours thoughtfully acknowledge both harmony and sorrow.   [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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IRT Towradgi Aged Care Village
May 29, 2025
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by Gardner Wetherill

IRT Towradgi Aged Care Village

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text]The redevelopment of IRT Towradgi transforms an existing aged care facility into a contemporary coastal community with 81 independent living residences. The Master Plan features a mix of villas, villa-style apartments, and three-storey buildings set around open parkland, with a clubhouse and café providing spaces for social interaction.   The architecture draws inspiration from its coastal hinterland setting. It has been carefully layered in composition, with landscape, materiality, and colour selections fostering connection to nature. Durable, low-maintenance materials such as brick, fibre cement, steel, and glass ensure the development melds seamlessly into context.   Sustainability is embedded throughout, with solar power, EV charging stations, stormwater reuse, and energy-efficient systems supporting long-term resilience and liveability. The site layout and building orientation are carefully planned to mitigate flood risk while enhancing resident amenity.   IRT Towradgi offers a thoughtfully integrated coastal village that fosters independence, connection, and long-term sustainability.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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Marist College Canberra Master Plan
June 2, 2025
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by Gardner Wetherill

Marist College Canberra Master Plan

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text] Following a design competition, GW. were selected to develop the new Master Plan for Marist College Canberra. The plan reflects the values and aspirations of the Marist community, creating a connected campus while laying the foundation for a long-term vision. Based around the narrative of “The Marist Journey”, the plan integrates learning, faith, and environment into a cohesive design to support development into the future.   We framed our ideas with embedding the values: Honest. Kind. Industrious.   A ‘green filter’ is provided on the western and southern sides, so that those entering can move through the trees and gardens. These elements are a transition promoting a sense of wellbeing. The first visible message of faith is a new chapel within the Village Green. Kind and simple in form, the chapel sits in a place of prominence and become the heartbeat of the campus: a beacon.   Quiet moments of faith are woven together with...

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June 28, 2023
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St Paul’s Grammar School, Innovation Learning Centre (ILC)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text]The Innovation Learning Centre (ILC) at St Paul’s Grammar School is a new collaborative teaching and learning environment, completed in 2023. GW. were commissioned to design the two-storey building upon successful delivery of the School’s 2019 Master Plan. The ILC features a range of flexible learning spaces that seamlessly integrate technology, to encourage proactive student engagement and transform knowledge sharing at St Pauls Grammar School.   Distinguished by its 'floating' roof and carefully designed clerestory glazing, the building captures abundant daylight, offers visual connectivity to the natural surrounds, and optimizes solar panel placement to minimize the environmental footprint. The external finishes and colour selections respond to the school’s existing colour palette and unify the site’s various architectural styles.   The specific flexible learning environments include:   - Knowledge Centre/Library with associated Offices, Silent Study, Seminar and Breakout Spaces - Lecture Theatre and Tiered Seating - Multiple “Incidental” Open Learning Spaces - Student Services Centre - Mathematics (7) - STEaM...

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May 20, 2022
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by Gardner Wetherill

Penrith Whitewater Stadium

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text] 20yrs after the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Paddle Australia and the associated key stakeholders are looking to reinvigorate the Penrith Whitewater Stadium. The project aims to sustain the success of the high-performance program into the future, evolve the facilities and embrace the surrounding lands.   At the heart of the project is the design of a new High-Performance Centre including a whitewater rafting ‘Easy River’. Through providing a channel for beginners and leisure, the Easy River enhances accessibility of the sport to the wider community, providing a pathway into elite competition. The design additionally includes training and education rooms and a lifestyle cafe/restaurant.   The introduction of an adventure zone and lakeside bike/walking path embrace the natural environment to enhancing community health and wellbeing, providing a new sporting and lifestyle destination.   Renewable energy would be generated on site with the aim to supply excess energy to support adjacent facilities and local enterprise. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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May 19, 2022
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by Gardner Wetherill

PSP & Fresh Country Farms Headquarters, Temora

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Journey [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text] The design of the PSP & Fresh Country Farms headquarters in Temora provides an elegant blend of materials, textures and forms to respond to the modular site storage sheds and grain silos of the operational environment and Riverina setting. Integrating agricultural facilities with commercial and community interfaces, the facility includes:   Reception & Waiting Display & Public space 5-6 offices 18-20 open plan workstations Board room 2 x meeting rooms Kitchen and breakout space (with associated external space) Comms room Archives Utilities Amenities to support workstations Shower facilities for the truck drivers 2 studio apartments [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

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