The Phelia Grimwade Dining Hall and T-Bar café at Melbourne Girls Grammar, is a conversion of the school's original 1930's boarders dining room and surrounding service areas into an integrated social area for use by day students, boarders and the broader school community.
Previously an area which was disconnected from both the academic areas of the school and the adjoining gardens, the new configuration of dining hall, servery, commercial kitchen, café and external decks, opens into the surrounding campus, becoming the social hub of the school.
The design of the Phelia Grimwade Dining Hall and T-Bar café retains the architectural and cultural significance of the original boarders' dining room whilst allowing it to be adapted to the current and future needs of the school. Through the balanced insertion of finely detailed contemporary elements, a richly layered assemblage of new and old is achieved.
The Phelia Grimwade Dining Hall and T-Bar café at Melbourne Girls Grammar, is a conversion of the school's original 1930's boarders dining room and surrounding service areas into an integrated social area for use by day students, boarders and the broader school community.
Previously an area which was disconnected from both the academic areas of the school and the adjoining gardens, the new configuration of dining hall, servery, commercial kitchen, café
and external decks, opens into the surrounding campus, becoming the social hub of the school.
The design of the Phelia Grimwade Dining Hall and T-Bar café retains the architectural and cultural significance of the original boarders' dining room whilst allowing it to be adapted to the current and future needs of the school. Through the balanced insertion of finely detailed contemporary elements, a richly layered assemblage of new and old is achieved.