Edith Cowan University, 2025

We are working with Perth-based Edith Cowan University on their City Campus project. We are assisting Lyons, our Australian partners, with the strategic campus masterplan, and focusing on the new home for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) within the City Campus. The new WAAPA will activate the northern block of the City Campus site, with a dynamic and welcoming entrance to draw in a diverse group of theatre patrons, visiting artists, university students and members of the community. The multilevel foyers incorporate new bars/cafes and catering facilities and have the infrastructure to facilitate impromptu performances and a provision for cross arts use combining student exhibition spaces within the ground floor foyer. Five new performance spaces of varying capacity and form will enable WAAPA to stage the full spectrum of their performing arts work in professional world class venues and develop an ambitious new artistic, research and educational programme. A series of teaching spaces, ranging from large rehearsal rooms and studios to ensemble and practice rooms, will support artistic development. Embedding WAAPA into the City Campus will ensure that a diverse range of ECU’s students and Perth’s wider community can experience both “front of house” aspects and “behind the scenes” glimpses of the extraordinary work that happens at this leading conservatoire.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY