Open House Melbourne: Catholic Leadership Centre

The Catholic Leadership Centre will be welcoming visitors as part of the 2025 Open House Melbourne weekend.

In 2012, the Archdiocese of Melbourne and the Catholic Education Office had a vision to adaptively reuse the historic St John the Evangelist School site in East Melbourne to become a professional learning centre for teachers and principals within the Catholic education system.

With the design by Woods Bagot, the centre features a series of flexible meeting and learning spaces housed within new and existing buildings.

A Woods Bagot senior interior designer and a representative from the centre’s operator, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS), will take tour groups through the Catholic Leadership Centre’s meeting and learning spaces. The Woods Bagot designer will speak to the design narrative and interventions made to the existing buildings during the 2012 redevelopment. A MACS representative will talk to the daily application of the spaces and how the design facilitates learning and collaboration.

90-minute tours run at 11am and 1pm, in groups of 35.

Bookings required—$7 booking fee applies
First release tickets: 12pm Wednesday 2 July
Second release tickets: 10am Saturday 5 July