North Terrace Campus Cultural Tours University Landmarks and Public Art Collections

25 26 27 The University of has been one of Australia’s leading The University of Adelaide Darling Building 1922 Physics Building 1926 Darling West 1962 universities since its establishment in 1874. Its contribution to the History & Heritage Tours acknowledges that the Kaurna Jory and Woods Bagot Laybourne Hassell McConnell wealth and well-being of and Australia across many March to November People are the original custodians of the Adelaide Plains and the land Laybourne Smith Smith and Irwin SA Heritage Register fields of endeavour has been significant. The University has been Tuesdays 10.30am on which the University’s campuses After WWI the University This building was a gift from Formerly The Bragg associated with five Nobel laureates and has over 100 Rhodes Thursdays 2.00pm received a gift from the the State Government to Laboratories, named in at North Terrace, Roseworthy and These tours are designed to family of John Darling, the University on its 50 year honour of Sir William Henry Scholars among its graduates and academics. Waite are built. founder of the stock and Jubilee in 1926. It originally Bragg, Elder Professor of introduce visitors to the history station firm, to be used housed engineering Mathematics from 1885, The University’s principal campus is situated in the heart of the of the North Terrace Campus and to The University acknowledges the for the construction of a and physics, but is now and Elder Professor of city between the North Terrace boulevard and the Torrens River’s historical impact of colonisation pre-clinical medical school. showcase treasures of the University. devoted to specialised Mathematics and Physics and its continuing effects, and It was the first building landscaped banks. It encompasses a sharp change in level down the physics laboratories and from 1899 –1908. In 1915 WH Meet your guide in front of the North Terrace Campus designed for the University is committed to the Council for workshops. It continued Bragg and his son William North Terrace escarpment which has resulted in many sets of steps by Walter H Bagot, who Mitchell Building Walter H Bagot’s red brick Aboriginal Reconciliation’s vision: Landmarks and Public Art worked on the design in Lawrence Bragg were jointly and stairs linking the upper level on North Terrace to the lower level North Terrace Campus classical style, first used by A united Australia which respects close collaboration with awarded the Nobel Prize for him in the Darling Building facing the river. Bookings with 24 hours notice Prof Thorburn Brailsford Physics for their research in this land of ours; values the opposite. Robertson, later Foundation X-ray crystallography. The The first University buildings, Mitchell and Elder, were built of are essential: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Professor of Physiology building, constructed of brick Please call 8313 3086 or email heritage; and provides justice and and steel in a post-war stone in the Modern Gothic style and face North Terrace. The and Biochemistry at the [email protected] equity for all. University. In its early years modernist style, contains a Self Guided red brick, classically derived buildings of the lower campus were You will receive a confirmation the Darling Building housed lecture theatre, laboratories designed principally by Walter Hervey Bagot, from Woods Bagot histology, pharmacy, human and a central atrium. of your booking. (Jory) Laybourne Smith and Irwin, the University Architects from physiology, pathology and related disciplines. Cultural Tour 1910 –1945. The campus layout was also carefully planned by Bagot Self-Guided Walking Tours as land became available for the University’s expansion towards Brochures for self-guided tours the Torrens River. of the Roseworthy and Waite There are over forty buildings on the University’s North Terrace Campuses are available online at: Campus, many of which are included on the South Australian adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections/tours Heritage Register. Tours by Special Arrangement Around every corner on the North Terrace campus, students, staff University Collections also offer and visitors to the University of Adelaide can find works of art on a range of tours by special 28 29 30 public display, many created by artists of international repute. arrangement, including the Tate Observatory 1948–49 Johnson Continuum 1974 Museum and the University’s public Architect-in-Chef Laboratories 1933 Herbert (Bert) Flugelman Several public artworks have been donated to the University, art collection, the viewing of selected W Lindsay Walter H Bagot and Austria/Australia helping to enhance the campus environment and its culture. University collections, and guided The Observatory was 1923 – 2013 Two of the University’s most celebrated benefactors — Sir Walter history and heritage tours of the a gift to the University This building consists of stainless steel Watson Hughes and Sir Thomas Elder — have earned places of Roseworthy and Waite campuses. from F W Wheadon, 185 x 166 x 40 cm two parts, an eastern side prominence on the North Terrace campus, with landmark-sized general manager of the funded by a bequest from Gift to the University of Adelaide Electric Supply Ronald Lindsay Johnson Adelaide on its centenary, sculptures of each. University Open Day Tours Company, and an amateur (1932) and a western six from Flinders University. The University holds its annual astronomer. The building storey section constructed Continuum is evidence Come to North Terrace campus and explore the environs is clearly identifiable as an in 1962, partly financed of the artist’s interest in and public art, or join us for a free guided tour. Open Day in August. Please check observatory by its domed through the Australian fundamental geometric University Collections’ program roof and outside spiral Universities Commission. forms and their reflections If you are interested in the heritage of the University or the University website for staircase. The telescope, The 1932 section is a as anti-formalist, and would like to access further information please visit confirmation of the date. housed in the dome, is classically inspired red brick minimalistic yet engaging www.adelaide.edu.au still in use for teaching building designed by Walter statements. Guided tours of the Museum purposes. The main part H Bagot. It forms part or contact of Classical Archaeology, Tate of the building has been of the University buildings University Archives Museum, Arthur Boyd Judges repurposed as the Adelaide facing Victoria Drive and paintings and public artworks Campus Children’s Centre. the Torrens River. T 08 8313 3407 [email protected] at the North Terrace Campus. These artworks include several by University Collections prominent South Australian artists; T 08 8313 3086 others are by key sculptors including [email protected] the English master modernist, The University has established a Heritage Foundation Henry Moore. to support the upkeep of our heritage buildings. For enquiries and donations please contact University Engagement Branch T 08 8313 4275 [email protected]

31 32 33 Brailsford Robertson Hartley Building 1927 Elsie Cornish Building 1928 Gavin G Lawson, SA Public Embankment Garden Woods Bagot Jory Works Department Adelaide landscape and Laybourne Smith SA Heritage Register designer Elsie Cornish The first CSIR, now CSIRO, The Hartley Building (1870 –1946) was employed building on the University was built in the Spanish from 1929 to 1934 by campus. In 2001 it was Mission style. It was first Walter H Bagot to establish Cultural Events, Tours Cultural Events, Tours cover image named after Prof Thorburn permanent home for the gardens on the lower Unveiling of the bronze figure of Brailsford Robertson (1884- and Museum entry are free and Museum entry are free Adelaide Teachers Training campus to complement his Sir Walter Watson Hughes, 1930), Chair of Physiology Everyone is welcome Everyone is welcome College, and in the 1960s architectural designs and foundation benefactor of the at the University 1919-1926, was named in honour of building layout. Of note was University of Adelaide, in front of and Chair of Physiology and the Mitchell Building on J A Hartley, Inspector of the colourful ‘Embankment Biochemistry 1926-1930. Bookings and Enquiries Bookings and Enquiries 28 November 1906 A distinguished graduate Education 1875 – 1896. Garden’ Cornish established Telephone +61 (0) 8 8313 3086 Telephone +61 (0) 8 8313 3086 The building became of the University, he was using many succulents she [email protected] [email protected] instrumental in making part of the University propagated herself. This adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections insulin more available and after a merger with the garden ran horizontally affordable for Australians. city campus of the South for 300 metres along the In 1927 he was asked to form Self-Guided Walking Tours Self-Guided Walking Tours Australian College escarpment from Kintore the CSIR Division of Animal of Advanced Education adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections/ adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections/ Avenue to the rear of Elder Nutrition. The building is in 1990. A lower level Hall. From 1934 Cornish tours tours an excellent example of the was added to the rear of was employed by the classical red brick buildings the building when it was Campus Maps University Campus Maps University University as ‘Gardener’ in preferred by the University refurbished in the 1970s. architect, Walter H Bagot. charge of the lower campus. www.adelaide.edu.au/campuses Collections www.adelaide.edu.au/campuses Collections August 2018 7 8 9 10 11 12 Elder Hall 1900 Sir Thomas Elder 1903 1936 Napier Building 1960 – 64 Madley Theatre Glass Dorado 1964 T F J Naish Edward Alfred Drury Woods Bagot Laybourne Bates, Smart Mosaic c 1960–63 Bryan Kneale O R R E N S R I V E R Britain 1856 –1944 Smith and Irwin and McCutcheon Geoffrey Wilson Britain 1930 31 SA Heritage Register Australia 1927 A bequest from Sir Thomas bronze, granite pedestal SA Heritage Register The Napier Building is steel, 256.5 x 122 x 30 cm E 30 V Elder in 1897 made the 376.5 cm h including pedestal Bonython Hall was a gift named in honour of Sir Italian glass mosaic tiles Gift of Kym Bonython, AC V 29 I C 24 T O R Mellis Napier, Chief Justice 280 x 400 cm A I A D R I V E 17 erection of this Florentine Gifted to the University to the University from DFC AFC 33 Gothic Revival style building by public subscription upon Sir Langdon Bonython. of the Supreme Court E 23 Designed for the Adelaide Bryan Kneale is a renowned 18 (1942 – 1967) and Chancellor R for a Conservatorium of Elder’s death. The sculpture Designed by Walter H Bagot Teacher’s College and sculptor in the United of the University 1948 – 1961. O Music possible. The on the Goodman Lawn in a Gothic style, using installed on the outher Kingdom, celebrated for T F It is a ten storey building 28 16 foundation stone was laid outside Elder Hall stands Murray Bridge limestone wall of the Madley Dance his inventive, modernist N R constructed of two parts — I 32 22 O in 1898 and the building in honour of the University’s and cast concrete details Theatre, this work by explorations of abstract K a podium containing lecture 33 21 19 M officially opened in 1900. most generous benefactor. externally, the Hall has notable South Australian forms, reflecting the theatres and teaching rooms 25 E Prior to the erection of Elder’s gifts totalled around Australian oak wall panelling artist Geoff Wilson, international, adventurous 27 and a tower with offices R Bonython Hall, Elder Hall £100,000 — a staggering and a vaulted painted represents education as outlook of its donor, the and smaller seminar rooms. O was used for ceremonial amount in the 1800s — plaster ceiling internally. a cultural and moral force avid collector and supporter A purposes as well as helping to create academic Bonython Hall is used for The Napier Building was in society. In 2004 the 26 D of the arts, Kym Bonython. concerts and public events. positions in science, ceremonial events such designed following the mosaic was relocated to It houses a Casavant Fréres medicine and mathematics as graduations or important modernist principles of the forecourt of the upper 20 organ installed during and establishing the Elder public lectures and events. the late 1950s and 1960s, Napier Building where it renovations in 1977 – 1979. Conservatorium of Music. encapsulated through complements the modernist vertical lines, and the use architecture. of connecting bands of 15 orange tiles. 14 10 13 7 N 6

UNIVERSITY 5 12 11 O F SO U T H NORTH TERRACE CULTURAL PRECINCT 4 AUSTRALIA 9 13 14 15 16 17 18 ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1 Reclining Connected Dual 1978 – 79 Exhibition Steps 1886 Helen Mayo North Mawson Benham Forms 1969 Greg Johns Withall and Wells and South 1948 Laboratories 1952 Laboratories 1939 STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Henry Moore Australia 1953 Formerly Medical School Woods Bagot Laybourne Woods Bagot Laybourne 8 These steps are the only INSTITUTE BUILDING Britain 1898 –1986 steel, painted black remaining evidence of the Woods Bagot Laybourne Smith and Irwin Smith and Irwin 3 bronze, concrete plinth 580 x 230 x 50 cm Exhibition Building built for Smith and Irwin The Mawson Laboratories The Benham Laboratories THE CENTRE OF DEMOCRACY 2 100 x 200 x 130 cm This work by nationally the 1886 Adelaide Jubilee The Medical School moved are named after Antarctic are named after benefactor ARTLAB AUSTRALIA Purchased through recognised South Australian International Exhibition to its Frome Road location explorer and Professor Dr F Lucas Benham, MIGRATION MUSEUM the Benham Bequest. sculptor Greg Johns is of the Arts, Agriculture to accomodate consistently of Geology, Sir Douglas a medical practitioner, and Manufactures. The Mawson. It houses the who wished to promote One of the leading sculptors based on the eastern increased enrolments. building was a large formal Tate Museum, named after the study of ‘natural of his generation, Moore philosophical concept It was built with funds classical Beaux Arts style Professor Ralph Tate, the history — animal rather than draws on his interest in of creating duality by from the Commonwealth structure which served foundation Elder Professor vegetable.’ It was originally armour, protection and the breaking a circle. Its form Reconstruction Training many purposes after of Natural Sciences from used by the Departments of human form as inspiration is influenced by the work Scheme, and State and of Henry Moore. the Exhibition, including Federal Government grants. 1875–1901. Zoology and Botany. N for this work, suggestive of O R T H housing the South Superseded by the Adelaide T E R R A C E a mother shielding her child. Australian School of Art. Health and Medical Landmark Building or Open Space It was demolished in 1960 Sciences facility adjacent 1 photography by Mick Bradley to make way for the Napier to the new Royal Adelaide Building, but these rear Hospital, it now houses Public Art steps down the escarpment researchers and faculty 2 photography by Iain Bond remain. administration. Map by Boon Ley and Zi Low

1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mitchell Building 1881 Sir Walter Watson Reconciliation Standing Work no. 3 Old Classics Wing 1902 Confucius 2008 Barr Smith Library Target Practice 1987 Mahatma Gandhi 2012 Union House 1975 Cloisters 1929 Mitchell Gates 1933 William McMinn Hughes 1906 Touchstone 2007 2008 Grainger and Naish concrete Reading Room 1932 Hossein Valamanesh Gautam Pal Dickson & Platten Lady Symon University Fence 1929 220 x 95 x 77 cm Building 1929 SA Heritage Register Francis J Williamson Karen Casey Johnnie Dady The basement and ground Woods Bagot Laybourne Iran 1949 India 1949 Associates Footbridge 1937 Britain 1833 –1920 Australia 1956 and Britain 1961 Confucius, Kong Zi or Smith and Irwin ceramic and glazed Sir George Murray This was the University’s floors of the Old Classics bronze, granite plinth SA Heritage Register Woods Bagot Laybourne Daryl Cowie cast iron Kong Qiu (551– 479 BCE) terracotta tiles, jarrah Building 1938 first building.Built in the bronze, granite pedestal Wing incorporate the small SA Heritage Register 197 cm h including plinth Union House Smith and Irwin 117 x 137 x 270 cm was a Chinese thinker, black granite, paving bricks Modern Gothic style with 350 cm h including pedestal Australia 1961 1886 addition to the north The original University This gift from the people accommodates the Woods Bagot Laybourne educator and founder of 8.82 x 6.2 m diagonals SA Heritage Register a grand staircase with Presented to the University reconstituted red granite, This work started as a east corner of the Mitchell library was in the Mitchell and Government of India activities of the Adelaide Smith and Irwin Confucianism. This statue The gates were a gift from mezzanine landing, stained in 1906 by Sir WW Hughes’ 260 x 128 x 150 cm cardboard approximation Building for the teaching Building. In 1899 it was Hossein Valamanesh’s to the University of Adelaide University Union. It was SA Heritage Register of a piano that was then of physiology to medical was gifted by the Chinese named after Robert Barr inlaid piece reworked Sir William Mitchell. Originally glass windows and hammer family. Hughes’ donation This work was unveiled and the people of South designed in a contemporary taken to a foundry and cast. students, as well as the Confucius Foundation and Smith, a major donor of existing bricks and spaces. A bequest from Sir positioned on Frome Road beam roof. Originally of £20,000 established the during Reconciliation Australia was presented style, while incorporating The folding, cutting and subsequent 1901 extension Chinese Tradition Promotion books and resources for Preoccupied by notions financed as part of Walter H Bagot’s housing all University University of Adelaide in Week 2007 and features by the Indian Council for heritage buildings within design for a grand entrance taping of the cardboard, of this addition to form a Committee to the University the Library. In 1927 Tom of directions in life, he construction of the Lady disciplines, it is now an 1874 and the work stands imprints of handshakes. Cultural Relations, New its footprint. It is built with leading to the Barr Smith as well as the damage wing of the Prince of Wales of Adelaide in 2008. Barr Smith, Robert’s son, suggests focus with the Symon Building for use administrative hub, housing outside its first structure, These were made at a 2006 financed a new library Delhi. It was unveiled by the particular attention to detail Library, they were relocated and repairs made while Building. The upper floor bow and arrow, while by University women as the office of the Vice the Mitchell Building. building to be named after Premier of South Australia and use of materials, and to Victoria Drive in 1960. Handshake Ceremony attempting to ‘play’ was added in 1911 when the the target is part of the a social and academic Chancellor and Chancellor. his father. The Barr Smith in the presence of the Vice- received an award from the The cast iron fence was where around 120 people the cardboard form are upper floor of the Mitchell hub. The cloisters leading In 1961 it was named Reading Room is the best arrow’s journey. The work Chancellor and President of Royal Australian Institute reconstructed in 1928 using came together to clasp Building was extended. On from this building are a in honour of Professor subsequently frozen in the example of the classical commemorates David the University of Adelaide, of Architects (SA Chapter) fencing removed from Victoria hands around dental plaster. war memorial. Sir George Sir William Mitchell, a iron copy. The new work has completion, the entire Prince red brick and freestone Saunders, Professor of and the Consul General of in 1975. Square. The Footbridge, the The resulting forms are Murray donated money for renowned philosopher who the weight and strength of of Wales Building was about style established by Architecture 1977 – 1986. India on 19 January 2012. first welded steel bridge in embossed with the traces the complementary building served as Vice Chancellor metal with the soft surface the same internal area as University architect Walter Adelaide, was designed by of individual palms bonded named after him at the (1916 – 1942) and then qualities of manipulated the Mitchell Building. It was H Bagot and features an Professor of Engineering together as a symbol of the Chancellor (1942 – 1948). cardboard. demolished in 1972 – 73 to imposing front portico and other end of the cloisters. R W Chapman and funded University’s commitment to make way for the Hughes a finely detailed interior with This was for use by the men by Lily and Eva Waite, reconciliation. and Wills buildings. a coffered ceiling. of the University. daughters of Peter Waite.