
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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