Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

Urban Transformation Summer School

Delivered by Western Sydney University X Powerhouse Parramatta

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2024

Stories

Urban Transformation Summer School

Delivered by Western Sydney University X Powerhouse Parramatta

Supported by Holdmark

People talking and looking over a wooden model of a city.

Stories

‘Western Sydney University is proud to partner with Holdmark and Powerhouse Parramatta to deliver this innovative summer school program, which will simultaneously develop students’ design thinking capability and advance practical solutions for issues directly identified by the local Western Sydney community.’

Professor Barney Glover AO, vice-chancellor and president, Western Sydney University.

Urban Transformation Summer School

The Urban Transformation Summer School is an annual multi-disciplinary program for Western Sydney University Master of Architecture students presented in partnership with Holdmark and Powerhouse Parramatta. The school focuses on urban design and transformation with a holistic approach to the built form.

Each year, the school engages a Western Sydney council to develop a real-world design ‘challenge’ for students to solve, using the local urban area as a model. Working in multi-disciplinary groups, students design interventions to improve the spatial, environmental and practical amenity of the selected urban space.

During the program students have direct access to leading industry experts from world renown engineering, architectural, planning, design and advisory firms.