Monash University
Workplace
With an eye on the future, Tzannes brings Benjamin Donohoo into top team
Sydney-based architecture and design practice Tzannes has appointed Benjamin Donohoo as an associate director, expanding the studio’s core leadership group.
News
Connecting people and place
A research exhibition reimagines St Kilda’s civic spaces through soft infrastructures that enhance wellbeing and urban experience.
Ideas
A winning appointment
Leading by design, Erik L’Heureux has recently taken the helm of Monash University’s Department of Architecture, and so a new and exciting journey begins for both L’Heureux and the University.
Project
The sweeping straight-line geometry of Splinter Society’s Monash pavilion
With contextual care and the odd formal flourish, the Monash University Pharmacy Pavilion has been completed by Splinter Society.
Workplace
Do architects feel well at work? The answer may surprise you
Did you know, people working in architecture have a significantly lower-than-average quality of life compared with Australian norms? Byron Kinnaird, a research fellow at Monash University for The Wellbeing of Architects project, reports on some the project’s most startling findings.
Events
Growth industry: Students leading the way in biodesign
In a competition held by K5 Furniture in collaboration with Monash University, students were challenged with a brief of mycelium-based product design. We visit the avant-garde with the exhibition ‘Metanoia’.
Ideas
News from the editor’s desk
Entries for the INDE.Awards close this Thursday, 31 March. Our Indesign editorial lead, Alice Blackwood, gives you the big deadlines and regales you with highlights of the past fortnight in design.
Articles
Monash Woodside Building: A seamless synthesis of scale, sustainability and sophistication
Designed by Grimshaw Architects and built by Lendlease, the highly considered edifice is a transformational facility for the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technology, and an optimistic manifestation of sustainable design in the face of the environmental crisis.
Project
Grimshaw’s methodology for education urbanism
When education buildings are properly integrated into the urban fabric of cities, magic happens. Grimshaw puts the method around that magic.
Ideas
RUOK? Burnout happens to the best of us, let’s talk about it
How might we foster a more open, help-seeking culture and create meaningful change around occupational burnout and mental health in the design industry?
Project
6 schools reinventing space to drive wellness
Can schools be designed to enhance the wellness of their users? Here are six of our favourite spaces that merge education with wellbeing.
News
Adaptive reuse prevails in 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards
Just when Australia’s beloved state of Victoria could well do with a ‘good news’ story, the 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards have delivered.
Project
Dramatic Statement: John Wardle Architects’ Caulfield Library, Monash university
A Brutalist 1970s library building provides the bones for a Renaissance-like redevelopment at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. The outcome is a dynamic hub that serves a complexity of 21st-century needs. “It was about opening the library up to the central village green of the campus and bringing light into the building,” says John Wardle Architects’ Jasmin Williamson.
Project
18 Innovation Walk: From modernist to contemporary at Monash University
A collaboration between Kosloff Architecture, Callum Morton and Monash Art Projects sees a modernist building reskinned with a contemporary façade.
Articles
Uncommon encounters: Design at Monash University promotes innovation and autonomy
A university’s purpose is to encourage students to think differently and act autonomously. In Monash University’s Learning and Teaching Building, it is finally being recognised that the architecture needs to mirror this.
Project
Campus Life: XO Dining By Kosloff Architecture
Monash University’s XO Dining merges informal learning spaces with social dining to create a space for enriching the student experience and university community.