The RMIT Building 220 is one of the best known suburban educational buildings in Victoria. Designed by the practice of
Wood Marsh, the building was built in 1998 as part of the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia.
Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...
(RMIT) university
Bundoora campus. It is part of RMIT's image campaign where the University is set to become more radical towards a new progressive identity. The building is a program of acquisition on suburban campus together with the University's other suburban campus which is the Brunswick campus.
Architecture
The building introduces a bold textural and planning concept to an unremarkable outer suburban campus. The arc read as a metallic fuselage, while in an ironic twist, the rock textured concrete abutments are perforated with circular windows. The educational building is a formal reflections on texture, tectonics, and colour as expressed through a building skin.
Award
1998 -
RAIA
(United we advance architecture)
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, National Awards, Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Buildings, Commendation
References
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Philip Goad
Philip J. Goad is an Australian academic, currently serving as Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is also a former President of the Victorian Chapter of the Royal Au ...
: ''New Directions In Australian Architecture''
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Building 220
Buildings and structures completed in 1998
1998 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Whittlesea