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QUIET LIGHT
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
RMIT’s new ‘Academic Street’ is a project full of surprises. It links two
unlikely buildings and in the process invents key spaces in a tour de force
of educational possibilities. Re-working a forgettable 1960s grey box and
notable Building 8 burlesque, five design practices teamed up to create an
astonishing revamp. An ambitious glazing program with a suite of Viridian
performance glass suffuses the work with remarkable qualities of daylight.
Viewed in all directions, the results bring light deep into this special
precinct as urban forest.
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‘ACADEMIC STREET’