| Description | Contains material related to the Competition for Design of City West Campus: Phase One. Includes Architects’ explanation of accompanying sheets, various drawings, plans, elevations, and photographs. Includes 2 SubSeries.
The project and competition were proposed for strategic reasons: need for a city presence seen as independent of the University of Adelaide, more room for growing, eventual amalgamation of the current (1999) seven campuses to four, and the opportunity to buy land at the western end of Adelaide for a relatively low price encouraged the University of South Australia to initiate a competition to design a new campus at the western end of Adelaide.
A variety of small, run down houses and the Westend brewery formerly occupied the land. The area also incorporates the old Lion/Fowlers warehouse, now occupied by government offices called the ‘Lion Art Complex’ that includes a theatre, café and the Jam Factory, a fine art foundation.
The RAIA guidelines were used for an architectural competition with some 25 – 30 registrations of interest received from SA based architectural practices. From these a final group of seven practices were invited to submit further and more detailed designs for a small fee, detailed designs anomalously. These designs were displayed with all references to their authors blanked out so they could be judged on merit alone. The winners final submission is within the collection as Series 208. More detailed information on the competition and entries is stored in the Property Unit files.
Phase Two and three of the development of this site will include more four-storey buildings. The concepts for this phase and phase three are already in place but are subject to change as circumstance change. Availability of funding, growth in student numbers or courses offered would all influence the final plan.
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