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The prism-shaped panels on the main tower facade respond to environmental conditions and form part of the precinct’s comprehensive sustainability strategy.

Urban unity: Melbourne Connect

Woods Bagot, Hayball, Aspect Studios, Hassell, Smart Design Studio, Hot Black, Studio Semaphore, Architectus, Silvester Fuller, Openwork

Melbourne Connect constitutes a range of research, commercial and residential spaces in three interconnected buildings with the aim of fostering innovation through planned and incidental collaboration.

Education
The Chancellery’s colonnade contains seven columns designed by different local and international artists. Columns visible (left to right): Mil ŋ urr- Ŋ aymil by Gunybi Ganambarr; Out of Order by Angela Brennan; The Chancellery Column Seat by Kathy Temin; Luk Nimit Column by Vipoo Srivilasa.

‘Messy vitality’: Monash University Chancellery

ARM’s Chancellery acts as a portal between Monash University and the community, celebrating campus history while providing a contemporary facility.

Education
The vast plaster ceiling features copiously repeated prismatic forms, housing lights that can be varied in colour and intensity.

A good Melbourne citizen returns: The Capitol

After a major 1960s downscaling and a series of ad hoc renovations, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin’s Capitol Theatre has been re-engineered to beguile audiences for another hundred years.

Education, Public / cultural
Concrete panels on the facade recede, tilt and fold to provide solar protection yet also reveal sliced silhouettes of life within. A dramatically cantilevered volume accommodates a recital hall.

Coalescence of art and city life: The Ian Potter Southbank Centre

The new home of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is a sensuous architectural vessel that supports musical learning as it mediates between performer, audience and city.

Education, Public / cultural
Studios are contained within the two-storey stables wing. First-floor studios on new floors are broken up with floor-to-roof voids that allow views of the original structure.

Intricate recasting: The Stables, VCA

This considered refurbishment honours a once-vital part of Melbourne’s infrastructure, transforming the formal rhythm of stables and riding halls into flexible studios and performance spaces for the Victorian College of the Arts.

Education
The faculty’s original 1930s engineering workshop has been reimagined to become a focal point for the school precinct.

Spatial drama: The University of Melbourne Engineering Building

Working within the University of Melbourne’s original 1930s engineering workshop, Designinc has opened up the student spaces to put engineering on display.

Education, Interiors
The sober plan and existing buildings are overlaid with a cacophony of colour and architectural expression. Landscape architects TCL created terraces on the rooftops and one at street level, featuring Peter Elliott’s relocated Bowen Terrace Loggia.

Setting the stage: New Academic Street

A collaboration between five architectural practices, RMIT University’s New Academic Street revels in diversity as a series of “theatrical stage sets” reinvigorates utilitarian buildings and reconnects them to their urban setting.

Education, Landscape / urban
Monash University Learning and Teaching Building by John Wardle Architects.

Monash University Learning and Teaching Building

Curiosity and humility colour John Wardle Architects’ approach to designing this new learning and teaching building at Monash University’s Clayton Campus, where references to the landscape cultivate a rich field of spatial and learning experiences.

Education
Matt black powdercoating on the projecting entry cylinders – the building’s most monumental aspects – helps them disappear from specific angles.

Monash University Biological Sciences Laboratory

A small, unassuming biology pavilion, Harmer Architecture’s Monash University Biological Sciences Laboratory combines austere materiality with expressive geometry to engage with its program and natural surrounds.

Education
Four new halls of residence have recently been built at Monash University’s outer-suburban Melbourne Clayton campus.

Monash University Halls of Residence

Four new halls of residence, by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, McBride Charles Ryan, and Hayball and Richard Middleton Architects, are shaping the urban environment of the Clayton campus and fostering a sense of community.

Residential
Rather than assuming a singular identity, the Melbourne School of Design introduces an assemblage of architectural moments to the university campus.

Academic rigour: Melbourne School of Design

At the University of Melbourne, a partnership between John Wardle Architects and NADAAA yields a layered new school rich in ideas and meticulous in detail.

Education
A bulging wall of tall, black columns surrounds the Mandala Room.

Under the dome: La Trobe Chancellery

DesignInc’s refurbishment of La Trobe University’s chancellery features a dramatic boardroom beneath the building’s original dome.

Interiors
A truss spans over the courtyard, past a stretched formation of Beethoven’s face.

Arts and Music Student Centre

Lyons creates a memorable new identity and social hub at the University of Melbourne.

Interiors
The Doherty Institute occupies a prominent corner on Royal Parade in Melbourne, and is co-located with Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne’s medial building.

The Doherty Institute

University of Melbourne’s new medical research facility by Grimshaw and Billard Leece Partnership.

Education, Health
RMIT Design Hub forecourt.

RMIT Design Hub

Sean Godsell Architects’ RMIT Design Hub functions “as both a building and declaration”.

Education, Public / cultural
The elevated “processional” staircase to the entry concourse.

La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science

Lyons’ new building for La Trobe University brings students and researchers together.

Education
An "interstellar craft come to rest among the campus buildings"?

RMIT Bundoora West Lecture Theatre

This RMIT building by Allan Powell Architects shows a maturity and restraint often found in genuinely iconic buildings.

Education
Swanston Academic Building is a new addition to RMIT University’s collection of buildings along Melbourne’s  Swanston street, which form “a city within a city.”

Swanston Academic Building

Swanston Academic Building by Lyons raises questions larger than architecture says Professor Des Smith.

Education, Public / cultural
One of the front galleries, with translucent view onto the courtyard.

MUMA: Monash University Museum of Art

Kerstin Thompson Architects’ gallery at Monash University develops a very subtle exploration of spatial experience.

Education, Public / cultural
Adjacent to Storey Hall, Building 22 is a heritage-listed former Singer sewing machine building. Ideas have spread from one building to the other.

Green Brain

Ashton Raggatt McDougall continues its exploration of the tension between ideas and materiality in RMIT’s Building 22.

Education
The building has a presence on the street and contributes to the community.

Swinburne Advanced Technologies Centre

The street facade created by H2o showcases the specialized research taking place at Swinburne.

Education
View of the zinc-clad northern facade. The building’s cranked form follows the curve of the ovals below.

Victoria Uni ESSP and Learning Commons

John Wardle Architects creates a zinc-clad city wall for the university’s Footscray Park campus, housing laboratories, a library and specialist sports science facilities.

Education