The Hospitality Trade Training Centre (TTC) at St Clare’s High School, Taree reflects our concern within the school’s context to deliver contemporary and uplifting buildings that represent excellent value for the available funding. The TTC program allows secondary students from years 9 – 12 to access vocational education and training. TTCs are helping to address national skills shortages in traditional trades and emerging industries. Low socio economic areas such as Taree benefit greatly from these initiatives. We view each new school building as an opportunity to improve the spatial quality of the school environment as a whole. The functional program was to provide for 16 student workspaces in a commercial kitchen environment and a general purpose learning area. The Hospitality building was designed to serve as both a classroom area and an occasional function/cafe space for the students to demonstrate and practice their hospitality skills. The design of internal spaces, the external appearance and the building’s prominent location reflects this dual role. This building demonstrates our ongoing preoccupation with the use of ordinary materials in a way that is both reverential and innovative.