New projects launching in 2022

Our studio is back, recharged and ready to launch into the new year with a number of significant new education and affordable housing projects across Victoria and interstate.

Highlights include Halycon Village, a major multi-stage affordable housing development for HousingFirst in Brighton, a campus-wide masterplan to redevelop Montrose Primary School, along with exciting new projects for RMIT, Swinburne University and GOTAFE in Wangaratta. We’re also working with Ambulance Victoria and Victoria University on a new office and training facility in Sunshine, as well as new regional nursing training facilities for LaTrobe University in Mildura and Wodonga.

This year, we’re continuing our long-standing collaboration with RMIT, working on several exciting refurbishments and new spaces across the university’s city campus, including a flexible new workspace for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a new Animation Lab for the College of Design and Social Context, along with workspace refurbishments to RMIT buildings 21 and 51.

Permits have also been received for our Faraday Street townhouse development in Carlton, working again with the same team delivering the high-profile McKinnon Secondary College Gymnasium, builder’s Jointly and the award-winning Hobart-based structural engineers Gandy & Roberts. As part of this development, H2o Director Tim Hurburgh is working on plans for a sustainable ‘tiny house’ to occupy part of the existing warehouse prior to construction.

In Tasmania, we’re pleased to be revisiting the historic Hobart Real Tennis Club for several upgrades to their existing playing and club facilities. We are also looking forward to the completion of key projects in the coming months, including the first stage of The Friends’ School Redevelopment in Hobart, the Flinders University Biodiversity Facility in South Australia and the Little Grey St Apartments for HousingFirst in St Kilda.

Due for completion in 2022: The new Sports Centre for The Friends’ School in Hobart, designed by H2o Architects with Bence Mulcahy.