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Pem Gerner

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The King’s School Pavilion – White Oval Parramatta Sydney NSW

The brief for The King’s School was originally for a pavilion, change rooms, a store and a score board grouped on the main JS White Oval. The pavilion was to serve as a meeting place, but also as a home for the display of the school’s sporting trophies and memorabilia.

The pavilion was designed with traditional forms and with great attention to detailing and craftsmanship. There was another pressing need demanding an urgent solution: in heavy rain the water on the oval could flow unimpeded down across the school site, flooding facilities in its path. So the brief was extended to create an embankment around the oval, serving both as a detention basin for the slow release of flood waters, and as a viewing mound. The final result was an integrated solution requiring environmental, hydraulic and architectural skills. The building group was opened on 31 August 1991.

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