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Two tertiary institutions line up new build projects

Tue, 15/11/2016 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
Melbourne University and Australian Catholic University are expected to host two new buildings that will further enhance their respective academic capabilities. With both projects at planning assessment, either build is still some time from fruition. In Carlton, The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne is planning to expand their services provided by way of a new building accommodating 136 studio apartments. Gladstone Terraces which...

Arts West fits best for Melbourne University

Mon, 17/10/2016 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
One of the city's more significant design contributions has taken its place within the grounds of Melbourne University. In the heart of the Parkville campus, the new Arts West Redevelopment was unveiled at the turn of September and primarily consists of a new $66 million teaching and learning building. Arts West also shapes as a key placemaking project, allowing the immediate area to tie-in by way of a newly landscaped plaza which references...

Southbank street life flourishes under the new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music proposal

Wed, 05/10/2016 - 00:00 Mark Baljak
The proposed new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) on Sturt Street is shaping to become much more than a cutting edge venue. While the project has been given coverage to date across a range of mediums, very little has been said regarding the project playing an integral part in the wider push to enliven the Arts Precinct and Southbank as a whole. With plans for the $105 million complex now on display, it's an apt time to explore the...

Red + Black Review: Melbourne School of Design

Fri, 16/01/2015 - 00:00 Michael Smith
One of the most significant additions to Melbourne’s world class Architecture in 2014 is a building full of expectation and promise. Some buildings have more expectations on them than others. When a new school of architecture such as the new Melbourne School of Design is built the design stakes are rarely higher. Every aspect of the building will be continually measured analysed, photographed, critiqued and criticized for the life of the...

Melbourne University's building program reloaded

Tue, 25/11/2014 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
Not all that long ago Urban Melbourne highlighted the impressive building infrastructure program that Melbourne University had and is undertaking, culminating with the Melbourne School of Design. A short few weeks later two additional projects have surfaced, each of which are set to make significant impacts upon their surrounds. Arts West Redevelopment Project Works are expected to begin prior to year's end on Melbourne University's Arts West...

Impressions of the Melbourne School of Design

Tue, 16/09/2014 - 08:00 Mark Baljak
University of Melbourne's new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning complex has recently been completed. Under the guise of the Melbourne School of Design, the new John Wardle and NADAAA designed building is located within the heart of the university's Carlton campus fronting Masson Road. Subject to an international design competition, 133 submissions from 15 countries were initially received for the landmark structure. Six competing...

Melbourne University's building infrastructure upgrade

Mon, 04/08/2014 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
The quality of the ‘Melbourne Experience’ is closely aligned with the level of amenity at all campuses of the University. Programs that upgrade teaching spaces, develop student facilities, increase the functionality of research infrastructure and improve the presentation of the external campus environments are a critical component of this experience for students, staff and visitors. UoM Enabler Strategy: Building Infrastructure Those are the...
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    Development & Planning

    Ivanhoe's latest apartment proposal provides a grand public gesture
    Monday, June 26, 2017 - 00:00
    John Demos Architects have conceived a new apartment building with the expectation that the project be an appropriate design gesture for a key Ivanhoe infill site. Vacant for many years, 40 Upper Heidelberg Road was in the past subject to a smaller apartment development that failed to materialise.
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    Policy, Culture & Opinion

    Reflections on doing it right: Alphington, Williams Landing and Fishermans Bend
    Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 12:00
    Two important stories which traverse both transport and housing topic areas were highlighted on Urban Melbourne this week. The news that the medium and high-density components of Williams Landing will ramp up highlight what some might gloss over but what I think is the correct 'order' of doing things: the rail station is built first, developers then piggyback off the new infrastructure second.
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    Visual Melbourne

    Melbourne’s White Night 2017
    Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 07:00
    Once again Melbourne has turned it on for the spectacular cultural juggernaut that is White Night. A crowd of around 600,000 took part in the all night festival of projections, performances, artworks and installations. Stealing the show again this year was the extraordinary projections upon the Royal Exhibition Building.
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    Sustainability & Environment

    CoM launches two projects aimed at enhancing the CBD
    Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 12:00
    Two of City of Melbourne's key urban design initiatives are in the starters gates, with Lord Major Robert Doyle yesterday providing further information on the pair. As of next month, the long-awaited upgrade to the southern end of Elizabeth Street will begin.
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