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Architect John Wardle Architects

It is a more than usually hectic forty-eight hours at John Wardle Architects (JWA) and that is saying something. The previous evening, to a packed flag-raising soiree, the remarkable duo of Will and Garrett Huxley performed an elegiac version of Abba’s “SOS,” complete with sequined onesies. A dozen of the staff are somewhere other, installing Somewhere Other in a thirteenth-century Venetian boatshed and the directorial team will follow tomorrow. Somehow, the JWA team finds time to give me the full story on the new Monash University Learning and Teaching Building [LTB] at the Clayton Campus. SOS indeed.

At 29,000 square metres of educational accommodation (and another 11,000 square metres of bus interchange, carpark and service pavilions), the $265 million LTB project offers plenty of challenge – not least to its outer suburban campus and neighbouring 1960s and 70s building

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