Lyons is an Australian

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based in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. Established in 1996 by brothers

Corbett Lyon Corbett Marshall Lyon (born 13 August 1955) is an Australian architect, art patron and academic who lives and works in Melbourne. He is a founding director of Melbourne architectural firm Lyons. With partners Carey Lyon, Cameron Lyon (died 2018), ...

and Carey Lyon, they were soon joined by third brother Cameron, Neil Appleton and Adrian Stanic, and are all now directors. Lyons is known for large commercial and institutional buildings such as the

RMIT Swanston Academic Building The Swanston Academic building is an RMIT building designed by the architecture firm Lyons and is located on Swanston Street in Melbourne across from Peter Corrigan designed building 8 and ARM's Storey Hall Storey Hall, located at 342–344 ...

, Melbourne, the Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria), 41 Exhibition St, Melbourne, the

John Curtin School of Medical Research The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) is an Australian multidisciplinary translational medical research institute and postgraduate education centre that forms part of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. The school w ...

in Canberra, the Central Institute of TAFE in Perth, the

Queensland Children's Hospital The Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH) is a public children's hospital on Stanley Street, Brisbane, Stanley Street in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QCH is the primary facility of Children's Health Queensland, the state-wide Hospita ...

in Brisbane, the School of Medicine and Menzies Research Institute in Hobart and the School of Medicine and Research in Sydney. The Lyons brothers are third generation Melbourne architects, grandsons of concrete pioneer and hotel designer Leslie M Perrott Snr, whose firm later became

Perrott Lyon Mathieson Perrott Lyon Mathieson was an Australian architecture firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by Leslie M Perrott in 1914, the firm was responsible for numerous high-profile projects from the 1920s to the 1990s, and was associated with the Perr ...

. Their father was Ron Lyon, a director of the Perrott firm in the 1960s–90s, who married architectural delineator Marietta Perrott, daughter of Leslie M Perrott Snr. Les Perrott Jnr also worked in the firm, becoming director in the 1960s–80s, and their uncle Eric Lyons was also an architect.

Projects

SAB, Melbourne CBD, as viewed from Swanston Street

* New

, Brisbane, * BHP Billiton Global Headquarters, Melbourne *

, Canberra * Central Institute of TAFE, Perth * Menzies Research Institute, Hobart * Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart * UWS School of Medicine, Sydney * Melbourne Brain Centre, Melbourne *

Lyon Housemuseum The Lyon Housemuseum is a hybrid residence and contemporary art museum located on Cotham Road, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Housemuseum displays the Lyon Collection of Australian contemporary art in a purpose designed building. The ...

, Melbourne *

Kangan Institute Kangan Institute is a TAFE (technical and further education) provider in Melbourne, Australia. History Kangan Institute was established as the Broadmeadows College of TAFE on 28 February 1986, when it was formally opened by Prime Minister Bob ...

, Automotive Centre of Excellence, Melbourne * Headly Bull Centre, Australian National University, Canberra * New School of Law at University of NSW, Sydney * Victoria University Online Training Centre, St Albans (Victorian Architecture Medal Winner) * Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Queenscliff * School of Medicine, Hobart *

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, La Trobe University, Melbourne *

, MelbourneCrafti, Stephen
"RMIT's latest is a building to navigate as well as to inhabit"
in

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, 20 August 2012 * Australian Institute of Architects, 41 Exhibition St, Melbourne

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Official website
Architecture firms of Australia Companies based in Melbourne 1996 establishments in Australia Architecture firms based in Victoria (Australia) 21st-century Australian architects {{Architect-stub

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