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Melbourne School of Design unveiled
The new home to University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning has officially opened. Described as a living, pedagogical building, the new facility is setting new standards...
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Old School / New School
Robots are going to take our jobs; or those jobs will be outsourced to countries on the other side of the world; or we’ll all be freelancing, doing multiple projects at once rather than a nine-to-five...
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Carefully crafted: Cathedral Grammar Junior School
Justine Harvey: How did you arrive at designing a school in Christchurch with Tezuka Architects from Tokyo?Andrew Barrie: They are old friends from when I was a student at the University of Tokyo....
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Class, can I have your attention?
Are colleges and universities adequately preparing students to be successful in the creative economy? This issue heated up again recently when a Gallup poll showed that only a third of executives...
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Learning curve: how is disruption refining the purpose of education?
A friend recently asked which tertiary organisations I might recommend for their child who was approaching the end of high school and trying to figure out ‘what to do next’. Reflecting on my answer, I...
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Large-scale reuse for new school campus
A former Foodstuffs distribution centre on Lydia Street — the largest of its kind in the South Island when it was built — was acquired by the Catholic Diocese and the concept of placing the new school...
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Bringing the community and culture in
Rockfall risk from the cliffs behind meant Te Raekura Redcliffs School was left without a home when its site was deemed uninhabitable after the Canterbury earthquakes. After the school spent seven...
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Communities of learning
It embodied a progressive vision in the post-war baby boom times, optimistic for a new future moving beyond the horrors of the previous decade: a place less about the traditions of the past but more...
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