Monash University The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts
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client Monash University
status Complete Early 2019
location Exhibition Walk, Clayton Campus, Victoria
traditional land owners Bunurong People
original architects Eggleston MacDonald Secomb, 1967
photography John Gollings
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The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts is a new contemporary live performance venue at the Clayton campus of Monash University. The Centre provides facilities for a full range of performing arts and university activities, including music, drama, comedy, classical theatre, dance, lectures, multi-media, functions and conferences. This heralds a new era for the performing arts in Melbourne’s south east by providing state-of-the-art facilities for international standard professional productions, students and local community groups.
The Centre contains three different performance spaces, a refurbished 586 seat Alexander Theatre adjoining two dynamic new venues, a 130 seat Sound Gallery and 200 seat Jazz Club café bar along with new front and back of house amenities. A large linear foyer linking all spaces, forms effectively a fourth performance space. All venues can be programmed for a variety of performance and event modes, or used as a university teaching and research facility.
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2020 Australian Institute of Architects Educational Architecture Award
2019 Think Brick Awards New entrant award [high commendation]