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Episode 120: Victoria University City Tower, a study in Modernising Historic Buildings for Today's Educational Needs

Episode 120: Victoria University City Tower, a study in Modernising Historic Buildings for Today's Educational Needs

FromTalking Architecture & Design


Episode 120: Victoria University City Tower, a study in Modernising Historic Buildings for Today's Educational Needs

FromTalking Architecture & Design

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Aug 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Clare Connan Senior Associate, Woods Bagot Architect and Stewart Lock,  Principal of Jackson Architecture explain the complexity and challenges in redesigning the Victoria University tower in Melbourne.From incorporating the 32-story glass tower onto a super-tight site to understanding the sites past as a one-time early 20th century STD clinic, the trials and tribulations of adaptive and heritage redesign, Clare and Stewart explain how they managed to deliver a structure that now holds the title of the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest university building.AM-BOSS is the 2022 Sponsor of our Education series of podcasts.
Released:
Aug 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Now celebrating its second year, Talking Architecture & Design is Australia’s first B2B architecture podcast that regularly talks about a range of issues that affect Australia’s architects, building designers and built environment professionals. Run by Australia’s most popular architecture magazine, Architecture & Design, the Talking Architecture & Design podcast gives a regular bite-sized dose of what is important and sometimes what is just plain old interesting to anyone and everyone in the business of building design.