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Peter Shergold Building, Western Sydney University World leading campus centred in Parramatta economic and social heart
Western Sydney University’s $220.5 million flagship Parramatta City campus is a high rise, five-star building, home to 10,000 students and one of the most technologically advanced teaching and research spaces developed in Australia and the world. The building’s design dispenses with traditional lecture theatres and encourages innovation, interaction and discovery through the use of smaller, informal learning spaces and collaborative learning studios. These highly-interactive, digitally-infused studios include writable walls and computers on wheels, high-tech cameras and interactive touch screens to allow students to share and compare work all powered by next generation, high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the building.
O’Connell Street Public School, Parramatta
Utilising heritage as part of a contemporary learning landscape
The project involves the adaptive re-use of the buildings on the site of Old Kings School Parramatta as a new primary school to cater for 1000 students. It will be the largest public commissioned primary school in NSW. The site contains a collection of buildings dating from 1836 to 1971 and includes buildings of exceptional heritage significance and some highly significant landscape elements such as a large oval to the south that fronts the Parramatta River. The entire site is listed on the State Heritage Register (NSW).
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