IGS is an independent arts-based establishment, pre-school to 12, with a strong emphasis on music and language teaching…….. It makes for an unusual school community, united not by class, expedience, faith or even parental ambition so much as adherence to a broad but intensely humanist tradition. This, roughly, was the brief to the design team, led by Peddle Thorp and Walker's Diane Jones, and it is this sense of humanism, cultivation and optimism that quickens the architecture.
Elizabeth Farrelly, Designing Woman, Sydney Morning Herald August 05, 1997