Ravenswood is a girls’ school on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, in a leafy, tree-lined suburb of grand old homes. It was always recognizable from the adjacent Pacific Highway (a progressively widened residential main street) by its large, lush oval, beyond which sat solid 1960s–1980s red-brown brick classroom blocks, plus a few school-occupied cottages. These buildings, distant and remote, exuded the solidity and reliability of a dependable North Shore private school.
But things have rather changed with BVN’s involvement in the school’s projects over the last decade. BVN won the competition for the Mabel Fidler Building more than a decade ago, but on engaging with the masterplan at briefing stage, agreed that the
