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Woodleigh Futures Studio / McIldowie Partners

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0000

More than just a school building, the Regenerative Futures Studio is a carbon-sequestering, solar-powered living ecosystem that filters pollution, fosters animal life, and generates almost zero waste. It provides a dynamic project-based learning environment for students to explore and address real-world problems with a regenerative focus.

Melbourne Indigenous Transition School Boarding House / McIldowie Partners

Hana Abdel — Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Built on Wurundjeri land, the new flagship Boarding House for the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School accommodates students from remote areas across Victoria and the Northern Territory. With cultural guidance from Senior Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Colin Hunter, the MITS boarding house has been designed to improve cultural safety, help keep students connected to the Country, and, in doing so, increase their learning outcomes.

Diocesan School for Girls Music & Drama School / McIldowie Partners

Hana Abdel — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Education architecture specialists McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects have completed a cutting-edge Music & Drama facility for Diocesan School for Girls, located in the verdant Auckland suburb of Epsom.

MLC Nicholas Learning Centre / McIldowie Partners

Andreas Luco — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000

From a plinth of grey bluestone to the light and open roof garden, with sightlines in all directions, the eastern walls of MLC’s Nicholas Learning Centre are carefully and deliberately curved, softly scribed along the hard edge of the sporting oval. The handcrafted brick ‘skin’ in pale shades and progressive tones bring warmth and connectivity between the formal and informal campus context. From within, the curved skin is punctuated by fenestration framing views, expressing open connection beyond the College, reflecting the MLC theme of educating world-ready women.

Diocesan School for Girls Music & Drama Centre / McIldowie Partners + Upton Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Music, drama and dance education is proven to nurture a child’s development. In fact, research has found that learning these creative subjects helps students excel in other subjects and can even increase a child’s IQ[1].

Gateway Building for Trinity College / McIldowie Partners

Valentina Villa — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0000

The Gateway Building sits prominently along Melbourne University’s historic circulation artery, the Tin Alley precinct. The new building forms a dramatic visual connection to the University from the centre of the Trinity College campus. The brief given to McIldowie Partners, was for the Gateway Building to serve as a new interface between Trinity College and the University. Affiliated with Melbourne University since 1872, Trinity College is home to the prestigious and successful Foundation Studies program – an academic ‘gateway’ that prepares up to 1,800 international students for entry into the University’s undergraduate courses each year. According to Director of McIldowie Partners, Steven McIldowie, the Gateway Building seamlessly reflects Melbourne’s history in brick and bluestone masonry whilst being contemporary and innovative in its own right. “Where traditionally, education buildings look inwards, we aimed to showcase Trinity College to the pedestrian flow linking the College and the University,” says McIldowie.