Additional teaching and library spaces, flexible learning spaces, facade upgrades, fluent circulation spaces and a wholly reinvented public realm are key features of this major upgrade.

The renovation makes permeable the existing building creating public links between Swanston Street and Bowen Street over multiple levels.

These strong pedestrian throughways and proximity to Storey Hall, the RMIT Swanston Academic Building opposite and the RMIT Design Hub on the corner of Swanston and Victoria Street serves to further enmesh the University with the city.

Awarded in the 2018 AIA Victoria architecture awards for: the Melbourne Prize; the Victorian Architecture Medal; the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture; the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design; the Award for Interior Architecture; and the Award for Sustainable Architecture. Awarded in the 2018 national architecture awards for: The Daryl Jackson Award for Educational Architecture; and the National Award for Urban Design.

Designed in conjunction with Lyons, NMBW, HAW, Peter Maddison, and TCL.