Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Building NameUnion Buildings, University of Adelaide
Client NameUniversity of Adelaide
TypeEducational
Style
Street No.
Street NameNorth Terrace
SuburbAdelaide
StateSA
CountryAustralia
Year Designed1927
Year Completed
Extant
Other ConsultantsLouis Laybourne Smith
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The Union buildings group (1930s) which included the Union cloisters. His observation of cloisters on his European tour in 1914 led him to write: ‘There is nothing so peaceful and satisfying in Architecture as a Cloister or a Quad those at Oxford are in their way as pleasing as the dear Italian cloisters … ’ (Bagot to Laybourne Smith, 11 October 1914).

Architect NameBagot, Walter Hervey

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