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