PROJECTS

Hassell’s new Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology within the University of Melbourne’s innovation precinct brings the faculty into the light and celebrates its profound and ongoing contribution.

In an ambitious act of co-creation, a diverse group of practices has listened to more than 20,000 students and staff to design a student precinct that encourages connections – between people, disciplines, past and present, inside and out.

The Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design reflects the surrounding ironbark trees and eucalyptus flowers, and boasts a multitude of other sustainable design features.

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.

Tasked with adapting an “ugly duckling” university facility in Melbourne into a new complex for a mathematics, earth atmospheres and environments department, Kennedy Nolan has created a design expression that responds to the existing building’s austere, functional modernism.

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

This Passive House-certified design rethinks the traditional student housing typology and creates a hilltop “village.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sinclair Knight Merz’s robust addition to Federation University Australia in Ballarat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.