North Terrace Campus Cultural Tours University Landmarks and Public Art Collections 25 26 27 The University of Adelaide has been one of Australia’s leading University of Adelaide 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 Woods Bagot Jory and Woods Bagot Laybourne Hassell McConnell wealth and well-being of South Australia 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 Louis Laybourne Smith 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