RMIT Building 220, Educational building in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

RMIT Building 220 is an educational structure in Bundoora characterized by a distinctive curved metallic hull-like form combined with textured concrete surfaces. Circular window perforations are distributed across the exterior, creating a striking visual pattern across the facility.

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology began construction of Building 220 in 1998 as part of its suburban campus expansion. This project represented a shift toward more innovative architectural approaches for educational facilities on the growing campus.

Building 220 was commissioned as part of RMIT's image campaign to present a more radical, progressive identity, and it sits alongside the Brunswick campus in a program of suburban campus acquisition. The architects, Wood Marsh, treated the facade as a formal study of texture, tectonics and colour, so the rock-textured concrete and metal skin are the point, not decoration.

Building 220 sits on RMIT's Bundoora campus, a suburban site in Melbourne's north-east. The design by Wood Marsh pairs a curved metallic fuselage with rock-textured concrete abutments pierced by circular windows. Visitors can walk the campus grounds to see how the building's skin and planning respond to its outer-suburban setting.

The building won two notable architecture awards shortly after completion: the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture and the William Wardell Award in 1998. This recognition highlighted how its bold curved form brought new thinking to suburban educational design in Australia.