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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
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
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
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
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
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
The tectonic forms of the new additions were designed to “appeal to children’s imaginations.”

A child’s castle: Waranara Early Learning Centre

In Sydney, architecture firm Fox Johnston has reimagined a hospital’s 1935 outpatients’ building into an uplifting space for kids to learn and play.

Education, Interiors
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
Occupying a long, thin site adjacent to UTS’s Alumni Green, the floor plan of the Science and Health Building bulges in and out to admit winter sun onto the lawn.

Rule bender: UTS Science and Health Building

In their design of the UTS Science and Health building, Durbach Block Jaggers and BVN have defied the rules set out in BVN’s own UTS masterplan.

Education
The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at UTS, designed by Gehry Partners was conceived as a cluster of treehouses.

Thick skin: Dr Chau Chak Wing building

Gehry Partners, LLP, Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke

While critics have laid into Frank Gehry’s UTS Business School for being image-conscious, Jennifer Calzini finds a building more than meets the eye.

Education
An indoor landscape unfolds beneath the pitched roofs and steel trusses of the warehouse.

Imagination at play: Camperdown Childcare

A childcare centre that is all about learning through play – a philosophy that not only applies to the youngsters but also informed the design process.

Education, Interiors
MUSE provides students with a range of spaces that can be used for group learning or individual contemplation.

Agitated space: MUSE

Woods Bagot use evocative and angular spaces to provoke creativity within the student hub at Macquarie University.

Education, Interiors
Wallace Wurth and the adjacent Lowy Cancer Research Centre command the north-eastern edge of the UNSW campus.

Wallace Wurth Redevelopment

Lahznimmo Architects and Wilson Architects interlace new and existing to produce a cohesive learning environment for the faculty of medicine at UNSW.

Education
Robustly detailed with steel cladding for low maintenance.

Pathways ECI Centre

A building by RAW Architects is designed to enrich the lives of disadvantaged children.

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
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
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 view south along the institute’s Church Street frontage. The steel box beam at the right houses the entry and “vertical street.”

Brain and Mind Research Institute

Glass walls provide a transparency in the laboratories and consulting rooms of BVN’s new facility at the University of Sydney.

Education, Health
The former public school buildings are heritage listed, and have been thoughtfully incorporated into the new design.

National Centre of Indigenous Excellence

A world-class sporting and educational complex is the latest addition to Redfern’s slowly growing community facilities.

Education, Landscape / urban
Spaces are zoned according to activity and relational heights for different age groups.

Kids Inc Childcare at the Zenith

This Sydney childcare centre by Futurespace is sensory, playful and safe.

Education, Interiors
Views to established trees and gardens form an essential element of the Lowy Centre.

Lowy Cancer Research Centre

Lahz Nimmo Architects in association with Wilson Architects brings the academic and the clinical together for the most recent addition to UNSW.

Education, Health