Kerstin Thompson Architects

In its adaptation of the former Victoria Police Mounted Branch Stables in Southbank, Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) has delivered a new home for the VCA Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, an education facility that has been sharing the building with its former tenants since the 1970s. The VCA (Victorian College of the Arts), an arts college which has in recent years become part of the University of Melbourne, sits snugly in the Southbank arts precinct, a stone’s throw from the Melbourne Recital Centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Victoria. Buildings on the VCA site that pre-date its takeover by the University of Melbourne include Edmond and Corrigan’s School of Drama (2002) and Minifie Nixon’s Centre for Ideas