Blessed are the Windowmakers
Georgina leads the Window-making Group, one of four parents who have volunteered their time to create bespoke windows and French doors for the school. (If you want to admire their…
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The Modern and the Pre-Medieval
Kindlehill’s team of artisans bring an impressive array of skills to the building process, but perhaps the most eclectic craft belongs to Matt, who specializes in pre-medieval construction techniques. A…
Artisans at Work
Rudolph Steiner was an architect, as well as a philosopher, scientist and social thinker. A quick glance at his major buildings – The First and Second Goetheanum and The Stuttgart…
Divine Challenge
Pippita and Lynne have set their own challenge. Over the holidays they sculpted a stairwell rail that evokes a twisting vine. Pippita came up with the idea after she…
Kindlehill verandah and front garden
The new verandah near the entrance is a beautiful creation, that provides shelter from sun and rain. Now that it is complete, the front garden has been tended to by…
Old Verandah, New Verandah
Kindlehill SchoolKindlehill School is a K-10 Steiner School that sits on a hill above the Wentworth Falls Lake, in the Blue Mountains, NSW. We are an independant school working creatively…
Recycle Reuse Reimagine
The large quantities of concrete used in the construction of the new performance space may seem to run contrary to the school’s commitment to use materials with a low embodied…
From The Ground Up
A performance space and kindy is emerging from the ground. The concrete footing is laid, the steel beams are up and the purlins are set. The Spiral Shell is taking…
MUDDING IN… (or if you can’t get a trady in, do it yourself)
Jason needed a “hands on” crew! A crew cheerful and hardworking. A crew that could sing as it worked. A crew that would work for the satisfaction of getting their…
Once there was a kindy with no doors and no windows…
The kindy children arrived to the new year to find their newly renovated kindy room was very different. For a start it was bigger but it was also a kindy…