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LOCATION
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Address Victoria Drive ADELAIDE
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area ADELAIDE Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Union Building Group, The University of Adelaide (including the Lady Symon Building, the George Murray Building, the Cloisters, the Western Annexe and the multi-level Union House)
Registered Name Union Building Group, The University of Adelaide
Significance This group of buildings represents two major stages of development for the Adelaide University Union to provide services and facilities for students on campus. The earlier Georgian buildings designed by Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne-Smith reflect the influence that firm had on the built character of the university campus. These subsequently provided the parameters for the structure and design of Union House, noted for the quality of its internal spaces and its relationship to the earlier buildings. Significant also for the use of timber in large-scale structures and in its high level of building craftsmanship, Union House is considered to be the culmination of a series of buildings in the 1960s-70s by the prominent South Australian partnership of Dickson and Platten which developed a 'vernacular' adaptation of modernism. (HSA Assessment Report 2/2002).
Subject Index Education - Tertiary Institution
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 25-JUL-2002
REFERENCE
LGA Adelaide
State Heritage ID 17619
Heritage Number 1529
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16 e - it demonstrates a high degree of creative, aesthetic or technical accomplishment or is an outstanding representative of particular construction techniques or design characteristics
g - it has a special association with the life or work of a person or organisation or an event of historical importance
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 6129/107 H105100 S1206

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