Education Sector

Project
Designed for social interaction: MGS Architect’s Kostka Building at Xavier College
For the Year 7 and 8 students of Xavier College, their dedicated Kostka Building feels warm, welcoming and offers myriad spaces for all types of social interaction. Living Edge has played an important role in this, working with MGS to supply furniture solutions that support their different learning activities.

News
Experiential design in the education sector with TURNER
The team at TURNER has amplified learning outcomes for students and teachers at Santa Sophia Catholic College in Box Hill, Sydney, adding to the work of BVN.

Ideas
“It’s about people and place” – education design in 2021
How can we design our schools to better support our people and enrich our sense of community? Indesign Editor, Alice Blackwood, talks education and urbanism in 2021.

Project
Is Queensland the education design capital of Australia?
The AIA’s 2021 Queensland Architecture Awards winners demonstrate strong investment and innovation in educational design throughout the state.

Articles
Cornering the market: Xoko by Akaba
What’s in a corner? The new Xoko range designed by Iratzoki Lizaso for Akaba uses a unique corner shape to great effect, making for flexible, practical commercial applications.

Articles
“I call it a ‘cultural effect’. It is an abstract quality of the architecture”: Ben Van Berkel on the architecture of education
Ben Van Berkel of UNStudio is changing the way your children will learn. Discover how architecture has revolutionised knowledge sharing.