With its striking visual metaphors, the new research and teaching centre by Lyons for La Trobe University not only breaks the mould at the 1960s Bundoora campus, it brings students and senior researchers into closer daily contact.

THEY came, they saw and they conquered - all in the name of charity. This March, property industry professionals took on the extreme task of riding the Victorian Chain Reaction Challenge, a gruelling 1,000 km cycling event to help raise much needed funds for children’s charities.

Located in an office tower building in Melbourne’s CBD, the design for the Slattery Australia office was inspired by the “innovation and luxury of the uniforms and vehicles of Tron Legacy.”

Slattery has been shortlisted in the 2013 Australian Interior Design Awards for Workplace Design.

Princess Leia has had an impact on a St Kilda apartment block.

THE Bacchus Marsh community, in the Shire of Moorabool, hasn't had a new municipal building for some time, with many public buildings dating back to the 1960s and '70s.