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It’s not every day that an architectural firm is asked to design a performing arts centre.

As a young builder working in his father’s business, Get Smart Constructions, Stuart Ponsford has helped build many homes for clients, but had minimal design experience, so experimenting on his own project – his first home – seemed a good place to start.

Located at Orchard Hills on the western outskirts of the Greater metropolitan Sydney, Penrith Anglican College is an independent co-educational school for students from pre-school to secondary school.

THE PROJECT Phillip Island sits just off the Victorian coastline some 140 kilometres south east of Melbourne and is perhaps best known for two things, hosting the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and being home to Australia’s largest colony of fairy penguins.

Located right near the ocean at Broadbeach, the Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club is a Gold Coast institution.

The vibrant new Senior Years and Science Centre at Ivanhoe Grammar School’s Plenty Campus, aptly named The Round, has made a dramatic visual addition to the Campus grounds - clad as it is in boldly-ribbed LYSAGHT LONGLINE 305® - and a dramatic difference to the students who utilise it.