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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.
EducationWangaratta 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.
EducationBox 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, InteriorsA 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.
EducationThe 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.
EducationPursuing 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.
EducationDynamic 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.
EducationGeoff 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.
EducationCity 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.
EducationA 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.
InteriorsTrinity 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.
EducationOld school ties: St Ambrose
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.
EducationHigh 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.
EducationAdelaide 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.
EducationLearning with attitude: The Alice Smith School
A collaboration between MvS Architects and iPartnership puts “dynamic attitude” into a school building in Malaysia.
EducationJoyous learning: Bunbury Catholic College
A collaboration between Broderick Architects and CODA Studio results in “something significant and joyous” for a school in WA.
EducationKeeping 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.
EducationRichard 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.
EducationLines 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.
North Melbourne Primary School
Workshop Architecture swaps the typical classroom model for an “internal playground”.
Education, InteriorsCamberwell Primary School
Workshop Architecture’s old school thinking in a new building designed for flexibility.
EducationThe Infinity Centre
A village of learning centres by McBride Charles Ryan looped around a set of courtyards.
EducationThree schools
The notion of place is the starting point for three South Australian schools by Tridente Architects.
EducationCandlebark School Library
Candlebark School Library is a new earth-covered timber building in a bushfire-prone area near the Macedon Ranges.
EducationRavenswood School for Girls
The aspirations of a private school on Sydney’s North Shore are articulated by Bligh Voller Nield.
Education, Public / culturalTarremah Hall
A hall for a Tasmanian Steiner school by Morrison and Breytenbach uses restrained effort to maximum effect.
Education, Public / culturalNudgee College Tierney Auditorium
M3architecture brings pattern to the fore in Brisbane.
Education, Public / culturalSt Ignatius Primary School
A careful geometry grounds this elegant brick pavilion by Richards & Spence Architects at St Ignatius Primary School.
EducationThree school projects go beyond the classroom
Architects and designers are creating fresh school environments to support a new era in education delivery.
Education, Public / culturalLilley Centre
Learning and the city. Wilson Architects’ new project for Brisbane Boys Grammar.
Education