Built Environment Grad Exhibition at White Bay Power Station

In November, UNSW exhibited the work of 400 final year students in the remarkable setting of Sydney’s White Bay Power Station

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UNSW Built Environment Graduation Exhibition at the White Bay Power Station (photo: Anna Kucera)

The School of Built Environment annual graduate showcase, exhibits and celebrates the work of final year students across Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Construction, Property Development, City Planning, Industrial Design

Partnering with the 2024 exhibition was held in the industrial setting of the power station’s Boiler House, one of the most remarkable cultural spaces in Australia. The exhibition was designed, organised and run by 61 UNSW Built Environment students, under the careful leadership of Dr. Kate Dunn. To prepare them for such an undertaking, students undertook a dedicated course on exhibition design and curation as part of their degrees.

Across the three days the exhibition was open, 2,500 members of the community, industry, students, families, friends and schools joined us to view the work and celebrate the graduating cohorts’ many achievements.

The 400 projects on show captured UNSW students’ creativity, empathy and an incredible suite of disciplinary skills used to envision a built environment that is more sustainable, equitable and inclusive. Projects ranged from the adaptive reuse of historic buildings to create new homes and tackle the housing crisis, to the design of products that embrace a circular future, prioritising repairability to expand their lifespan and reduce waste – along with hundreds of ideas beyond.

Students from the UNSW Built Environment Graduation Exhibition team (photo: Anna Kucera)

The School of Built Environment would like to thank the event sponsors, and in particular gold and platinum sponsors Bates Smart, Forte Group, Iconic Scaffolding, King Living, Ronald Lu & Partners and Sici Design. In addition, to our hosts, Placemaking NSW and the White Bay Power Station.

However, our biggest thanks and congratulations go to our graduating students. The excellence of their work on show demonstrates that this next generation of city makers and designers have the skills and empathy to tackle the most pressing urban challenges we face in the years ahead.