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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Lyons wins design competition for Springvale Community Precinct Project

Following a shortlisted competition process, Lyons’ have won the design for the new Springvale Community Precinct Project for the City of Greater Dandenong.

Located in the heart of Springvale, the design incorporates an integrated library and community customer service hub. The building is structured around signicant red gum trees at the centre of the site, with a flowing landscape form and a generous community green. The design for this important community building incorporates and reflects the stories of the Springvale Community - its past, present and future.

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Wominjeka - A New Beginning

Saturday the 19th of September 2015, marked the official opening of the Koorie Heritage Trust's new home in the Yarra Building at Federation Square, a Lyons & IADV (Indigenous Architecture & Design Victoria) designed fitout. The relocation is a significant symbolic move of Koorie culture from the margins of the city to its centre.

Officially launched by the Honorable Natalie Hutchins MP, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, along with opening remarks by the Right-Honorable Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, the event coincided with the Trust's 30th Birthday celebrations.

The Trust is a peak indigenous organisation in Victoria and its new premises allow it to share its heritage collections, create a place for the Koorie community to take pride in their identity, and where the wider community can come together in the spirit of reconciliation.