- Client
- Christchurch Boys' High School Christchurch
- Sector
- Education Secondary school
- Disciplines
- Graphic design Window privacy manifestation
- Engagement
- 2020–2025 New blocks and heritage main building
The challenge
New buildings and a heritage block that needed privacy, and a sense of place.
In 2020 we began a window privacy manifestation project with Christchurch Boys' High School (CBHS) for its new Caddick and Caldwell buildings. In 2024 the school asked us to extend the design into its historic main building.
The opportunity was to make functional privacy designs carry the school’s rich visual history and the cultural tapestry that runs through its grounds, architecture and culture.
Moments across decades of schooling, captured on the glass.
What we did
We wove the school's history and culture into designs tailored to each classroom.
- Briefing with leadership. We met the CBHS leadership team to shape the brief.
- New blocks, 2020/21. Privacy designs for the new Caddick and Caldwell buildings.
- The heritage main block, 2024/25. The design extended into the restoration of the historic, heritage-listed main block.
- Tailored to each classroom. Subject-related imagery, from Geography field trips over the years to book covers read in English and original art by current and past students.
- One team. Working alongside CBHS, Athfield Architects, Action Signs and Southbase Construction.
The outcome
A much-loved result, from the newest blocks to the heritage building.
New blocks
Caddick and Caldwell, 2020/21.
Heritage main block
Extended through the 2024/25 restoration.
Subject imagery
Designs tailored to each classroom.
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