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Sunshades are used to modulate Perth’s incessant glare, while the timber frame aids natural ventilation.

Boola Katitjin by Lyons et al

Lyons with Silver Thomas Hanley, Officer Woods and The Fulcrum Agency; Landscape architect Aspect Studios

Part of Murdoch University’s 20-year masterplan, a new, monumental mass-timber building expands the character of the bush campus and provides spaces geared toward contemporary, collaborative learning methods.

Education
The new university buildings are stitched into a precinct already containing the Queen Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, the Launceston Tramway Museum, cafes and sports grounds. Artwork: David Hamilton

University of Tasmania, Inveresk Campus

The masterplan for the University of Tasmania’s campus relocation in Launceston, drawn up in collaboration with multiple stakeholder groups, aims to reuse existing industrial structures, stitch new buildings into the site, regenerate the landscape and embrace the community.

Education
The faculty aims to demonstrate a progressive work model based on diverse settings.

FEIT at Melbourne Connect by Hassell

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.

Education
In the design of the public realm and landscape, by Aspect Studios with Glas Urban, the original course of Bouverie Creek is traced across the surface of the site, making natural systems visible in urbanized Carlton.

University of Melbourne Student Precinct Project by Lyons et al

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 new buildings reflect the architect’s thorough understanding of the basic principles of tropical architecture.

Nungalinya Student Accommodation by Incidental Architecture

Underpinned by a years-long relationship and a set of shared values, Incidental Architecture’s work at Nungalinya uses robust materials to achieve a simple, practical elegance.

Education
Protected by a distinctive roof, an open threshold connects the college with the larger Brisbane knowledge corridor.

Brisbane South State Secondary College by BVN

Grand in scale yet responsive to its context, this addition to Brisbane’s “knowledge corridor” embodies a layered narrative of connections to neighbours, to Country and to community.

Education
The building’s glass facade recognizes both the sandstone of the university’s Great Court and the chemical engineering processes explored inside.

Andrew N. Liveris Building, The University of Queensland

At the University of Queensland, two design teams have interwoven narrative, history and a vision for the future to craft a building that reflects its faculty’s culture of open collaboration and provides a hub for the St Lucia campus.

Education
With 20 percent of the floor area allocated for industry participation, the design reflects Curtin’s “living laboratory” ethos.

School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University

Based on biophilic design principles and reflecting the changing nature of education, a new building at the heart of Curtin’s innovation precinct has grown from the architect’s deep understanding of the school’s culture and ethos.

Education
The louvred facade is 50 percent solid and 50 percent transparent, but each orientation varies to achieve maximum energy efficiency and make use of every phase of daylight.

Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design

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.

Education
The design team chose honest materials that provide visual and acoustic comfort, which also age well with the daily wear and tear of an engineering workshop.

The excitement of experimental activities: Monash Robotics Lab

A robust intervention by Studio Bright delivers radical change, a significant civic contribution and a comfortable place to meet a robot.

Education
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 curvacious roof produces spatial complexity and aids in wayfinding through the campus.

Playful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza

Cox Architecture, Counterpoint Architecture

At JCU’s Townsville campus, a creative collective has come together to produce an academic and social hub amplified by the seamless integration of art and architecture.

Public / cultural
Classrooms have folding, highly acoustic screens and doors, allowing them to join into adjacent collaboration areas.

Lessons in colour: Ravenswood Senior Learning Centre

Designed by BVN, this new addition to Ravenswood School for Girls complements and reflects the site’s history and features a striking patina copper facade that is both classic and contemporary.

Education
Within the lounge area, two semi-enclosed work pods surrounded by circular three-quarter-height walls provide quiet and private study spaces.

‘Ugly ducking’ no more: Monash University Building 28

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.

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Bilya Marlee symbolizes the embedding of Indigenous protocols and knowledge across the UWA campus.

Narrative and legacy: Bilya Marlee

Kerry Hill Architects, Galt Geotechnics, Sharyn Egan

Part of an evolving architectural language developed by KHA for the University of Western Australia, this distinctly Aboriginal building was designed through an extensive consultative process based on Noongar narratives.

Education
Inside the entry, a new “spine” draws students and visitors through the existing buildings and unites what had become a series of disconnected spaces.

Sense of communitas: Bethlehem College

In Sydney’s inner west, Neeson Murcutt and Neille has rejuvenated an historic school, linking a disjointed conglomeration of buildings and creating spaces for contemporary learning without losing the memory of previous built forms.

Education
The contemporary facade is suggestive of a stage curtain, casting the people and spaces as performers within the cityscape.

Embedded narratives: The Hedberg

Conceived as an “incubator,” the University of Tasmania’s new music school, designed by Liminal Architecture and Woha highlights the university’s important civic and cultural role.

Education, Public / cultural
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
JCB used Passive House principles for Gillies Hall in line with Monash University Peninsula campus’s net-zero carbon emissions strategy.

Gillies Hall on the Mornington Peninsula

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

Education
UTS Central by FJMT.

Recoding campus architecture: UTS Central

At UTS Central, with its glass-wrapped podium and twisting tower, FJMT both dances with the University of Technology Sydney’s existing structures and defines the future using new design and construction techniques that facilitate individual and collaborative study.

Education
Using prefabrication techniques and timber innards, BVN was able to save on labour costs and reduce embodied carbon in Fenner Hall.

Architectural balancing act: Kambri at ANU

The Australian National University (ANU)’s Kambri precinct feels like part of the city – an urban ensemble in which there is coherence in built form, but where buildings have individual identities.

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
A sepia photo of residents performing a play in 1913 (a provocative “paean to female agency”) becomes a frieze for the body of the Sibyl Centre.

‘Looking backwards to look forwards’: Sibyl Centre

Stories dating back more than a century infuse this addition to the first university college for women in Australia.

Education
Curtin University’s Bentley campus was founded in the 1960s. The design for Think Space was inspired by neo- futuristic architecture of the era.

Educational engine room: Curtin Think Space

In Perth’s south, Curtin University’s new Think Space by Arcadia Design Studio aims to promote collaboration and the cultivation of new ideas between the university and industry.

Education
Colour has been used to differentiate the spaces and to elevate the interiors through playful but complementary colour schemes.

Flying colours: Giraffe Early Learning Centre

In Sydney’s Northern Beaches, architecture studio Supercontext has restored and reused a heritage substation, converting it into a place for children to play and learn.

Education
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
Constructed of predominantly prefabricated components, the Incubator meets a challenging brief for a building that was quick to construct, was easy to relocate in the future and would allow flexibility of use.

Next level prefabrication: Macquarie University Incubator

In this temporary education building by Architectus, which requires flexibility of use, prefabrication and swift construction offer a design-driven vision for the demountable building of the future.

Education
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 student hub’s internal face brick walls are topped with a sawtooth roof that provides great natural light.

Show the ropes: Notre Dame University Student Hub

In Fremantle, Cox Architecture’s sensitive reworking of a former rope-making warehouse aims to make a university hub more appealing and accessible to students.

Education, Interiors
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