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Category - Education
Year completed - 2019
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As a crucial campus node, the building encourages occupation via small, human-scaled edges and protective corners.

A memorable civic impact: The University of Melbourne End-of-Trip Facilities

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.

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
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