Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Shortly after the founding of Hannaford, Pellew and Hodgkison, in collaboration with Cheesman, Doley, Neighbour and Raffen Pty. Ltd., the two practices developed a ‘new concept in Adelaide architecture and the city’s tallest building’ - the Grenfell Centre (Page 1986, p.270). The building incorporated ‘[t]wo aspects of 20th century architectural philosophy … : the building, influenced by Mies van der Rohe and North American corporate architecture, with its inherent climatic problems, and the creation of space around the tower to form a plaza and pedestrian network through the central business district’ (Page 1986, p.270). The Grenfell Centre, sometimes referred to colloquially as the ‘Black Stump’, was completed in 1973.