Nicholas Creative Hub 2.0

Recently, the Nicholas Building, a heritage listed building, was up for sale. The Creative Community in the building believes that selling the building will destroy the community because the new owner will increase the rent or change the building into apartments for more profit.

Due to the limitation of the heritage building, the project creates a new extension by the transformation of the private to public to connect the old building and resolve its current issues, potentially becoming a space that stimulates innovation and contributes to vibrancy.

A new Nicholas creative hub aims at underlining the creative identity of Melbourne city by enabling it to welcome and host in the same place different forms of expression and productivity. The creative hub also has a role to connect the art community with the public by cultural mediation and knowledge exchange. It’s a place to think and to share, with more open and fluid space in the new hub which allows for a wide array of functions and uses.