{"id":584838,"date":"2026-04-04T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:02:19","slug":"cost-cuts-to-reduce-scale-of-proposed-christ-church-grammar-school-performing-arts-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584838\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost-cuts to reduce scale of proposed Christ Church Grammar School Performing Arts Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cost-blowouts to a proposed $39.5 million performing arts centre at Christ Church Grammar School has caused the elite private school to make some revisions to the original plan.<\/p>\n

The lavish three-storey centre, called PERFORM, will be facing some scaled-back revisions after it was found that the projects costs were \u201csignificantly over budget\u201d following approval in August last year.<\/p>\n

The amended plans were brought back for council approval on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Under the updated design, the overall height and bulk of the building have been reduced, while elements of the upper level have been scaled back to create a less imposing structure.<\/p>\n

The building has also been shifted slightly west to improve separation from nearby heritage-listed structures, including Parry House, and the size of a southern balcony has been cut to increase its setback from the Swan River foreshore.<\/p>\n

\"ConceptCamera IconConcept images from inside the $39.2 million performing arts centre proposal. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n

Council officers said the changes resulted in a \u201cless complex design\u201d that would reduce visual impact while maintaining the same function and capacity as the original proposal.<\/p>\n

This includes the 470-seat auditorium, a 220-seat black box theatre with retractable seating, an ensemble room, an orchestral rehearsal room and a terrace, all with sweeping river views.<\/p>\n

The decision clears the way for the school to proceed with the refined version of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cost-blowouts to a proposed $39.5 million performing arts centre at Christ Church Grammar School has caused the elite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,505,2555,134,44,46,45,506],"class_list":{"0":"post-584838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-central","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-perth","15":"tag-wa-news","16":"tag-western-suburbs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}