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Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre is a joint project of the state government, South West TAFE and the city council.

Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre by Kosloff Architecture

By knitting together a new three-storey building and a refurbished, heritage-listed hall in regional Victoria, Kosloff Architecture has designed a valuable asset for the community and the local TAFE.

Education, Public / cultural
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 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
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
The extension wraps and folds around the existing building, its form referencing the junction of the orthogonal city grid and rotated axis of the harbour.

Unapologetic bravado: World Maritime University, Tornhuset

Australian architecture practice Terroir collaborated with Danish firm Kim Utzon Architecture on the design of this bold extension to the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, which “wraps and folds” around the existing 1910 building.

Education, Public / cultural
The Advanced Engineering Building, viewed from the north, showing the glazed volume housing the studios.

Advanced Engineering Building

An new integrated teaching and research facility at University of Queensland.

Education, Public / cultural
RMIT Design Hub forecourt.

RMIT Design Hub

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

Education, Public / cultural
The flexible atelier space allows for multiple configurations.

Kings Park Education Centre

Perth’s new environmental teaching centre by Donaldson + Warn for Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority.

Education, Public / cultural
Swanston Academic Building is a new addition to RMIT University’s collection of buildings along Melbourne’s  Swanston street, which form “a city within a city.”

Swanston Academic Building

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

Education, Public / cultural
One of the front galleries, with translucent view onto the courtyard.

MUMA: Monash University Museum of Art

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

Education, Public / cultural
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
Enter the time tunnel.

Martian Embassy, Sydney

Moby Dick meets the Time Machine at LAVA’s Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory.

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
A series of chevrons built into the surface of the mantle accommodates track and accent lighting.

UTS Great Hall

DRAW furrows a new great hall in the iconic brutalist tower at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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
View of the northern facade. A screen of transparent polycarbonate encloses verandah spaces on the northern and western edges.

Fitzroy Community School creative space

Melbourne’s inner north welcomes a new community facility, designed with restraint by Baracco + Wright and Richard Stampton.

Education, Public / cultural
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