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Boola Katitjin by Lyons et al
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.
EducationUniversity 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.
EducationFEIT 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.
EducationUniversity 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.
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.
EducationBrisbane 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.
EducationAndrew 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.
EducationSchool 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.
EducationMonash 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.
EducationThe 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.
EducationUrban unity: Melbourne Connect
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.
EducationPlayful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza
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 / culturalLessons 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‘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.
CommercialNarrative and legacy: Bilya Marlee
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.
EducationSense 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.
EducationEmbedded 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‘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.
EducationGillies Hall on the Mornington Peninsula
This Passive House-certified design rethinks the traditional student housing typology and creates a hilltop “village.”
EducationRecoding 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.
EducationArchitectural 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.
EducationA 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‘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.
EducationEducational 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.
EducationFlying 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.
EducationCoalescence 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 / culturalNext 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.
EducationIntricate 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.
EducationShow 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, InteriorsSpatial 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