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Inside, the spaces are designed to help the students attain and retain information, but the “deeply student-focused” approach extends beyond the building’s interior.

Meadows Primary School by Project 12 Architecture

By gaining a thorough understanding of the perspectives of staff and students at this suburban Melbourne primary school, Project 12 Architecture has designed new spaces that reflect the current community’s specific needs, rather than any particular pedagogical approach.

Education
There are plenty of opportunities for tactile engagement with the building and its surrounding landscape.

Wangaratta District Specialist School by Sibling Architecture

Amid the existing older buildings and portables at this regional Victorian school, an unassuming yet enticing new addition leads a program of rejuvenation, providing tranquil, tactile spaces and facilities that foster independence.

Education
The school’s brickwork and roof are abstract reflections of houses in the surrounding streetscape.

Box Hill North Primary School by Sibling Architecture

Reflecting its residential context, this junior learning hub by Sibling Architecture uses colour and form to meet the needs of those in their first years at school.

Education, Interiors
Lilydale High School’s Zoology and Administration buildings form the new entry to the school in an outer Melbourne suburb.

A virtue of modesty: Lilydale High School, Zoology and Administration

In executing stage one of a masterplan for Lilydale High School, Harrison and White dignifies the suburban and the modest while also alluding to Melbourne’s broader architectural culture.

Education
Cox Architecture’s plan arranges distinct school precincts around a green “oasis” that is a focus of the constructed landscape.

The city classroom: Fortitude Valley State Secondary College

At Brisbane’s first vertical school, by Cox Architecture, students are experiencing a different kind of secondary education that makes the most of the urban surroundings.

Education
Locating the preparatory school along the western boundary of the campus maximizes open playing space, while enhancing the campus enclosure.

Pursuing the campus vision: Christ Church Grammar Preparatory School

With_Architecture Studio’s recent addition to Perth’s Christ Church Grammar School is a cleverly configured preschool-to-year-six block designed to suit many pedagogical methods.

Education
The space is designed as a central public piazza linked by a clock tower and public forum, pictured here.

Dynamic classicism: Piazza Dell’Ufficio

Branch Studio Architects has updated a dark rabbit warren of office spaces at a high school in Melbourne’s west into a “monastic” central public piazza used by students and staff.

Education
The curving, singular form, which occupies the south-east corner of the campus, acts as a grandstand-like backdrop to the adjacent oval.

Geoff Handbury Science and Technology Hub

Enveloped in an intriguingly veiled and aptly futuristic form, this new facility at Melbourne Grammar School offers some compelling insights into the future of science and technology education.

Education
Conscious of Perth’s geological bed, the designers sat the new building on a limestone plinth at the site boundary, obviating the need for a fence and incidentally creating a platform on which children can perch.

City in miniature: Highgate Primary School New Teaching Building

By responding to site at a variety of scales, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects has designed a new primary school building in Perth’s Highgate that offers both intimacy and engagement with its inner-suburban context.

Education
Round edges, including on the ottomans and cylindrical pendant lights, mimic the fluid lines of the spiral staircases.

A lyrical labyrinth: Research Learning Centre

M3architecture took inspiration from a labyrinthian library featured in a children’s book for the design of this research and learning centre at Brisbane Girls Grammar School.

Interiors
The new science building at Trinity Anglican School is a concrete and single masonry block structure wrapped in a sunscreen of prefabricated steel channels.

Trinity Anglican School Science Building

Charles Wright Architects has created a dynamic new science building for Trinity Anglican School in Far North Queensland, responding to both program and climate with lyrical pragmatism.

Education
The design of St Ambrose Primary School includes a variety of carefully considered indoor and outdoor spaces for learning.

Old school ties: St Ambrose

Pat Twohill Designs in association with Twohill and James

In their design for a primary school in far-northern New South Wales, Pat Twohill Designs and Twohill and James retain the look of the weatherboard schoolhouse but take a decisive break from tradition.

Education
The new Mandeville Centre at Melbourne independent girls’ school Loreto Mandeville Hall houses the school administration, staff centre, lecture theatre, Learning Resource Centre and Year 12 Centre.

High achiever: Mandeville Centre

Designed by Architectus, the Mandeville Centre, at Melbourne school Loreto Mandeville Hall, is an “affirmation of architectural credentials,” the building providing an appropriate counterpoint to its heritage setting and maximizing potential for learning interactions.

Education
The New Learning Centre is sited next to an existing 1990s building, which was built in the same style as the original buildings designed in the 1930s by Sydney architects Edward Fitzgerald and John R. Brogan as part of their winning entry in a national architecture competition.

Adelaide High School New Learning Centre

With a nod to Adelaide High School’s 1930s design, JPE Design Studio’s New Learning Centre provides flexible and informal learning spaces.

Education
Analogous to the existing buildings in scale and proportion, the new addition contrasts starkly in its architectural language.

Learning with attitude: The Alice Smith School

MvS Architects and iPartnership

A collaboration between MvS Architects and iPartnership puts “dynamic attitude” into a school building in Malaysia.

Education
The Learning Commons’ curvilinear brick walls add to the handmade, “tapestry-like” quality of the buildings.

Joyous learning: Bunbury Catholic College

A collaboration between Broderick Architects and CODA Studio results in “something significant and joyous” for a school in WA.

Education
In this simple, orthogonal structure of brick and concrete the method of construction is clearly legible – joins are exposed and materials are expressed.

Keeping it real: MGGS Morris Hall

A school in Melbourne readies its students for the world of the virtual, with a firm grasp on the value of the real.

Education
The Tudor Centre is part of an ongoing series of refurbishments at Trinity Grammar School in Kew, Melbourne.

Richard and Elizabeth Tudor Centre for Contemporary Learning

McIntyre Partnership’s expressive learning centre at Trinity Grammar in Melbourne serves as a chronicle of the architecture of Peter McIntyre.

Education
The Middle Schools complex at Tintern Schools in Ringwood East, Melbourne is shaped by a careful approach to landscape and site-scale planning.

Lines in the land: Tintern Schools Middle Schools

In response to this Victorian school’s pedagogical model for parallel learning, Architectus realizes a confident pair of buildings that counters formal separation with social connection.

A spiral staircase makes a grand gesture in the centre of the two-storey volume.

North Melbourne Primary School

Workshop Architecture swaps the typical classroom model for an “internal playground”.

Education, Interiors
A large, flexible space beneath the new classrooms.

Camberwell Primary School

Workshop Architecture’s old school thinking in a new building designed for flexibility.

Education
The infinity symbol represents the education of both genders and infinite knowledge.

The Infinity Centre

A village of learning centres by McBride Charles Ryan looped around a set of courtyards.

Education
Caritas College Junior School External Covered Area.

Three schools

The notion of place is the starting point for three South Australian schools by Tridente Architects.

Education
Candlebark School Library, under an early evening sky. Most of the building is cocooned underground, except for the south-facing wall of glass.

Candlebark School Library

Paul Haar Architect

Candlebark School Library is a new earth-covered timber building in a bushfire-prone area near the Macedon Ranges.

Education
The two-storey polycarbonate-clad volume containing a learning centre cantilevers over a manganese brick base.

Ravenswood School for Girls

The aspirations of a private school on Sydney’s North Shore are articulated by Bligh Voller Nield.

Education, Public / cultural
Located fifteen kilometres south of the state capital Hobart, Tarremah Hall provides a large hall, a music room and covered connecting spaces for the Tarremah Steiner School.

Tarremah Hall

A hall for a Tasmanian Steiner school by Morrison and Breytenbach uses restrained effort to maximum effect.

Education, Public / cultural
The entrance is flanked by two existing inclined concrete “buttresses.” A canopy appears supported by five columns.

Nudgee College Tierney Auditorium

M3architecture brings pattern to the fore in Brisbane.

Education, Public / cultural
A lightweight steel roof is tethered above the brick pavilion, its underside emphasized by uplighting.

St Ignatius Primary School

A careful geometry grounds this elegant brick pavilion by Richards & Spence Architects at St Ignatius Primary School.

Education
Outdoor learning at St Monica’s by Baldasso Cortese.

Three school projects go beyond the classroom

Gray Puksand, Hayball, Baldasso Cortese, Liminal Studio

Architects and designers are creating fresh school environments to support a new era in education delivery.

Education, Public / cultural
North-eastern corner, opposite the Great Hall. On the upper floor, the mirrored facade conceals the function room, while the “Ned Kelly” window intersects the deck.

Lilley Centre

Learning and the city. Wilson Architects’ new project for Brisbane Boys Grammar.

Education