The completion of the Gymnasium building represents the second stage in the establishment of the All Saints Greek Orthodox Primary School Campus. With it the Greek Orthodox Church has achieved another crucial part of their long term goal to establish a cultural precinct around the existing All Saints Church and the recently completed Primary School which was the recipient of the Sulman Award for Public Architecture in 2009.

The client and the architect agreed from an early stage that a school should be a stable structure in repose, that it should not be lightweight and that it should stand largely against time though with the accumulation of a material patina. The brief stipulated that the building should function for at least one hundred years. To this end the materials were selected and the construction was composed to achieve a robustness tempered by a material and chromatic warmth and with a poetic playfulness that was considered appropriate for such an institution. Stretching a penny with all of the project team, a new facility was made for the school and we hope all who attend it will be inspired by and recall fondly their experience over the next hundred years.