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The curvacious roof produces spatial complexity and aids in wayfinding through the campus.

Playful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza

Cox Architecture, Counterpoint Architecture

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 / 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
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
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