The George Swinburne Student Hub

The George Swinburne Student Hub

Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn campus, Victoria, Australia ‘The George’ is a dynamic project that marks a very special point for our practice. It was our first major new building project, repositioning Swinburne University’s main campus into the globally leading, high-performing education institution it is recognised as today. The previous building was inadequate to support […]

MARS Petcare Centre

MARS Petcare Centre

Wodonga, Victoria The MARS Petcare Centre in Wodonga is a unique facility to house cats and dogs for the research of pet foods that puts animal welfare as the highest priority.   In developing this facility, MARS Petcare understood the potential perception issues with an animal testing facility, so the design needed to communicate very […]

PACCAR Australia Head Office and Parts Expansion

PACCAR Australia Head Office and Parts Expansion

Bayswater, Melbourne DS Architects has been working with PACCAR Australia since 1976. This relationship reflects our specialist industrial design knowledge and our ability to manage the expectations of global offices across Australia and the United States of America while delivering projects within live sites.  Most recently, our team has undertaken major projects for PACCAR at […]

Post Covid Workplace Renewal

Post Covid Workplace Renewal

Swinburne University of Technology Having designed and delivered the building over a decade ago, we were again engaged to refurbish 2 levels of office space within The George Building on Swinburne University of Technology’s Hawthorn campus. Our scope included the IT department on level 6, and departments including finance, strategic planning and data analytics, facility […]

Saving Antarctica’s Environmental Future

Saving Antarctica’s Environmental Future

Monash University DS Architects was engaged in 2020 to deliver a world-class research facility to accommodate Monash University’s Saving Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) program. This initiative brings together global environmental research leaders from over thirty government and educational organisations. Our team designed a strategic fitout that transformed the space into a fit-for-purpose department that catered […]

School of Education

School of Education

Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Geelong Deakin University’s School of Education is a bold, confident new precinct that cements its reputation as one of Australia’s top national and global leaders in teaching education. On the doorstep of surf beaches and the famous Twelve Apostles, the site is located at the Geelong Waurn Ponds campus, which […]

Bouverie Street Redevelopment

Bouverie Street Redevelopment

The University of Melbourne 207 Bouverie Street, located in Carlton, is a 5 story building with 3 levels of basement parking. We have been commissioned to develop and then implement a master plan for the site to meet the growing needs of the two departments occupying the building – School of Geography and Melbourne School […]

DS Architects

DS Architects

Our Home Away from Home Having worked on many exciting and innovative projects over the years we have often, somewhat enviously it must be said, wondered what it would be like to design a space for ourselves. So when the opportunity came up to find a new site for our practice we saw a chance […]

Monash University Post Graduate Facilities

Monash University Post Graduate Facilities

With this project Monash University makes a statement of its intent to postgraduate education by providing distinctive, high quality postgraduate study spaces with unique offerings to the postgraduate student community.  The facilities convey an active and transparent edge along a high-profile avenue leading to the campus heart. This activated edge also creates an opportunity for […]