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“From council car park to vertical campus”: Bankstown City Campus by HDR

“From council car park to vertical campus”: Bankstown City Campus by HDR

HDR, in collaboration with Walker Corporation and Lyons, has designed Western Sydney University’s new 26,500 square metre vertical Bankstown City Campus as part of a $340M investment in the area.

Feel the magical realism of Zikawei Library

Feel the magical realism of Zikawei Library

Wutopia Lab dissolves the original architecture of this site to create a “nouveau experience” known as magical realism. Prepare to be carried away.

Mixing it up – Port Melbourne Secondary College by BLP

Mixing it up – Port Melbourne Secondary College by BLP

This secondary school design challenges convention of form and facilitates the new thinking that is shaping pedagogical environments. Here’s how.

Wurun Senior Campus, the height of education design in Melbourne

Wurun Senior Campus, the height of education design in Melbourne

Winner of The Learning Space at 2023 INDE.Awards, Wurun Senior Campus by GHD Design and Grimshaw features terraces in the sky and dynamic learning neighbourhoods that turn the vertical school model outside-in. Senior year just got better.

“Imagining a future history”: The six new schools of outer Melbourne

“Imagining a future history”: The six new schools of outer Melbourne

The task facing ARM Architecture was to create six new schools across five sites in Melbourne’s outer suburbs.

Anita B. Lawrence Centre launches: 25-year anniversary marks renaming of UNSW Red Centre

Anita B. Lawrence Centre launches: 25-year anniversary marks renaming of UNSW Red Centre

As part of UNSW’s Celebrating Women on Campus project, the home of UNSW’s School of Built Environment has been renamed in honour of a trailblazing architecture graduate.

Intersecting innovations: Accelerating advances in science through collaborative infrastructure

Intersecting innovations: Accelerating advances in science through collaborative infrastructure

In this comment piece, Graeme Spencer, national director of science and education at HDR, discusses the state of scientific and technological innovation across the design industry.

The school that went underground: Ivanhoe’s world class sporting complex

The school that went underground: Ivanhoe’s world class sporting complex

At Ivanhoe Grammar, McIldowie Partners has tackled a demanding brief head-on. With multiple levels and a wealth of facilities, the new Sports and Aquatic Centre brings top class facilities without losing a connection to the landscape.

Q&A: Offline versus online learning with Spowers’ Scott Allardyce

Q&A: Offline versus online learning with Spowers’ Scott Allardyce

Spowers is a Victorian design practice, delivering architecture, interior design and masterplanning across a range of sectors. Hear director Scott Allardyce’s take on equitable hybrid learning environments.

“Stronger than before” – Clifton Creek Primary School revived from the ashes of 2020

“Stronger than before” – Clifton Creek Primary School revived from the ashes of 2020

The devastating 2019-2020 bushfires forever changed Australia’s physical and spiritual landscape – especially for rural communities such as Clifton Creek, Victoria. Architecture firm AOA Christopher Peck recently delivered a message of hope to the people of Clifton Creek with the rebuild of its beloved primary school.

Licking the local competition: Studio Roam

Licking the local competition: Studio Roam

While Perth’s Studio Roam chooses to stay consciously small in practice, its vision is big, and its joint ventures lead to even larger outcomes.

Timber, glass and blinds at Macquarie University

Timber, glass and blinds at Macquarie University

Specified at the new Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Verosol Ambience roller blinds are helping the building’s innovative timber structure shine.