Lyons wins UoM’s new $229m student precinct project

We are honoured to announce that Lyons has overcome significant competition from almost 40 architects and designers to be appointed Project Lead for the new Student Precinct project at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus.

Lyons will lead a team of specialists and designers including Koning Eizenberg Architects from the USA (led by UoM alumni Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning), with Aspect Studios, Breathe Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Glas Urban and Architects EAT.

Encompassing nine buildings, the precinct will bring together the University’s student unions, academic services, and the Institute for Indigenous Development, Murrup Barak for the first time; significantly reshaping and revitalising the landscape and built environment of the site.

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Can a building revitalise a city?

The recently completed University of Newcastle campus, designed by Lyons in collaboration with EJE Architecture, brings a new perspective into the heart of a rapidly transforming town.

The original campus for the University of Newcastle, is out of town and surrounded by trees. But Newcastle is a place of rapid growth and as it continues to develop its identity as a creative precinct, the university wanted to expand its campus, this time in the heart of the city.

InDesign Live editor, Aleesha Callahan talks to James Wilson, director at Lyons, to get insight into this project and how it set out to revitalise Newcastle.

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New Academic Street Officially Opens

(in association with NMBW, MvS, Harrison & White and Maddison Architects)

The New Academic Street precinct, a $220 million investment by RMIT University, was officially opened on Wednesday 20th September by the Lord Mayor Robert Doyle AC and followed by a street party celebrating 130 years of RMIT University. The project took five years to complete, starting with the masterplan which was developed collaboratively between the architecture practices.

Lyons led a five-firm design collaboration comprising NMBW, Maddison, MvS, and Harrison and White. Working closely with RMIT to achieve the university’s goals of a future-looking building that has an unprecedented focus on students.

Rather than knock down the existing buildings and start from scratch, the design team embarked on a bold project of adaptive re-use which radically transformed buildings 8, 10, 12 and 14, reconfiguring the heart of the campus.

The design team has successfully rebuilt the centre of the campus for students, and in doing so, enabled the university to continue to retain, attract and grow student numbers. This major project has transformed the scattered RMIT city campus into an interconnected, vibrant collection of buildings. RMIT now offers students a truly vivid, intense city-like experience.

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