PROJECTS

On a site that has hosted many forms of education, a new vertical school structure in inner-Melbourne suburb Flemington complements a contemporary and non-traditional pedagogical approach yet remains adaptable to future change.

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.

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.

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.

Branch Studio Architects and Marcellin College seek to enhance student wellbeing through a series of empathetic interiors that re-interpret the Marist Brothers’ Catholic tradition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ARM’s Chancellery acts as a portal between Monash University and the community, celebrating campus history while providing a contemporary facility.

Showing sensitivity to urban context and university campus identity, a clever practice has incorporated a heritage garage into a simple yet striking amenities block that contributes significantly to the public realm.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Working within the University of Melbourne’s original 1930s engineering workshop, Designinc has opened up the student spaces to put engineering on display.

A collaboration between five architectural practices, RMIT University’s New Academic Street revels in diversity as a series of “theatrical stage sets” reinvigorates utilitarian buildings and reconnects them to their urban setting.

Curiosity and humility colour John Wardle Architects’ approach to designing this new learning and teaching building at Monash University’s Clayton Campus, where references to the landscape cultivate a rich field of spatial and learning experiences.

A small, unassuming biology pavilion, Harmer Architecture’s Monash University Biological Sciences Laboratory combines austere materiality with expressive geometry to engage with its program and natural surrounds.

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.

A school in Melbourne readies its students for the world of the virtual, with a firm grasp on the value of the real.

McIntyre Partnership’s expressive learning centre at Trinity Grammar in Melbourne serves as a chronicle of the architecture of Peter McIntyre.

At the University of Melbourne, a partnership between John Wardle Architects and NADAAA yields a layered new school rich in ideas and meticulous in detail.

Sinclair Knight Merz’s robust addition to Federation University Australia in Ballarat.

University of Melbourne’s new medical research facility by Grimshaw and Billard Leece Partnership.

Workshop Architecture swaps the typical classroom model for an “internal playground”.

Workshop Architecture’s old school thinking in a new building designed for flexibility.