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Victor McMahon Music Centre

Victor McMahon Music Centre

St Kevin’s College had outgrown its existing music centres on its Glendalough Junior campus. We created a new facility to meet the needs of its growing music program for both junior and senior students.

Designed for performances and gatherings, the music centre provides a large recital and rehearsal space with a listening gallery. A range of small and medium spaces provides opportunities for individual and group practice for various instruments.

Client
St Kevin's College
Location
Toorak
Photography
Peter Clarke
Traditional Country
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong
The interiors are inviting, with walls and ceilings clad in Victorian Ash; like a musical instrument, the spaces are detailed and sculpted to be warm and textural, with timber chosen for its beauty and acoustic properties.
The interior detailing of the acoustic ceiling makes further reference to exterior facades with its block patterning.

The external architectural expression of the new music centre consists of a robust palette of materials, responding to the college’s adjacent sports hall clad in charcoal zinc and taking cues from the architectural heritage of St Kevin’s Monastery in Ireland, with its solid granite construction and small slit windows, the latter of which is achieved with triple-glazed windows providing improved acoustic and thermal performance.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where our studios are located, the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of Yálla-birr-ang, Collingwood and the Wadawurrung people of Djiling, Geelong.

We pay our respects to Elders, past and present, across all regions of Victoria and beyond. We honour the design ingenuity of First Peoples over millennia, their unique contribution to our understanding of place, and their care for the Country on which we create.