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View and learn more about the design of education, including kindergarten, school, university, college and community college buildings, lecture halls, lecture theatres, sports facilities, classrooms, tertiary education buildings, workshops, art studios, TAFE buildings, faculty buildings, and student common areas; for case studies, precedent studies, and inspiration.

Featuring the work of renown architects HASSELL Architects, Gregory Burgess Architects, John Wardle Architects, Wilson Architects, Peter Elliott Architecture, Urban Design, Anthony Styant-Browne Architect, Phillips Pilkington Architects, Woods Bagot, Woodhead International, Russell & Yelland Architects, and Guida Moseley Brown Architects, among many others.

Australian Wildlife Health Centre

Minifie Nixon Architects
Healesville, VIC

Day-to-day work at the new Minifie Nixon-designed Australian Wildlife Health Centre is deadly serious but also entertaining and informative: think somewhere between ER and the National Geographic channel.The AWHC houses a complex range of veterinary services: emergency ward, hospital operating theatres, laboratory, post-mortem zones, care and recovery, rehabilitation, and safe areas for the release of recovered wildlife.

Beaconsfield Community College

Prior & Cheney Architects
Beaconsfield, Victoria

As flocks of young couples and new families flood into Victoria’s Cardinia Shire, the Municipality has been feverishly expanding its facilities to accommodate them and to keep pace with what is now the region’s fastest growing housing development. Indeed, it was not just architectural excellence and innovation that was needed for the new Beaconsfield Community Complex. It was energy.

Design DNA

Lyons' award-winning John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU is inscribed with scientific symbolism and twists like a DNA molecule.

Dominic College Chapel

DesignInc Tasmania
Glenorchy, Hobart


Over four years ago Dominic College lost its 1950s Chapel through arson. For Elvio Brianese, a former student of the coeducational Catholic school in Glenorchy, northern Hobart, rebuilding the Chapel was a project of passion. Brianese is a Director of DesignInc Tasmania, and he has a great deal of experience in local and international educational projects. He focussed squarely on imparting some modernity, some living symbolism, to the structure.

Hassell's University of Western Sydney

Hassell
Parramatta, Sydney


Working to foster an environment conducive to learning is an architectural endeavour as much as it is a pedagogical one. In this sense, Hassell’s design for Building EA of the University of Western Sydney’s Parramatta Campus – a building that has itself learnt the lessons of its educational context – is a resounding success.

Melbourne Grammar School Memorial Hall

Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design
South Yarra, Melbourne


Melbourne Grammar School's South Yarra campus is an extraordinary collection of nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century structures. It owns in excess of 30 individually-listed heritage items, from buildings and ovals to trees and fences and various sundry structures; and between these points on the canvas there's very little room to move.

Monash University Communal Pavilion

Anthony Styant-Browne Architect
Clayton, Victoria


Inspired by the primordial simplicity of Laugier’s Hut and the sybaritic loafing of Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur L’herbe, the communal pavilion for the 120 students in residence at Monash University’s Clayton Campus is a recreational facility for the students to unwind, engage in communal activities and internalise the soothing buzz of the natural world.

Pembroke Middle School Resource Centre

Woods Bagot
Adelaide, South Australia

Woods Bagot prides itself on being Australia’s oldest architectural firm - now in its 137th year - because it has not lost sight of the big picture: the future. Their collaboration with Pembroke Middle School to enhance their educational facilities and experiences cements their commitment to a work ethic predicated on a progressive awareness of workplace, lifestyle, and education.

The Metropol Parasol

Jürgen Mayer H.
Seville, Spain


One of the stranger projects being built today is at the produce markets in the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain.

Victorian Space Science Centre

Gregory Burgess Architects
Strathmore, Victoria


Burgess’ previous projects, despite often being built in modest circumstances, held a kernel of utopian intention. At the turn of the millenium, a commission from the Victorian State Government and an outer-suburban high school gave Burgess and his team the chance to take on that great twentieth century utopia: outer space.

Wilderness School Multipurpose Hall

Phillips Pilkington Architects Pty Ltd
South Australia

The multi-purpose hall for South Australia’s prestigious Wilderness School reflects the school’s subtle and elegant ambience; its clean and crisp lines and metallic sheen delicately complement the warm and full-bodied interior, where the hopes and spirit of the school’s young women reside and resonate - in assemblies, theatrical productions, musical recitals and sports matches.

 

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