The SA Chapter has recently partnered with 891 ABC radio to produce a new segment on Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff.
This segment involves interviews with our architect members taking a walk through Iconic Buildings in Adelaide. Twelve buildings were selected with recording commencing in May. The interviews will be on air every fortnight until August. To launch the program, two live public interviews were conducted at Adelaide Writers Week with Lu Balsamo on the Adelaide Festival Centre, and WOMADelaide with Guy Maron on the Bicentennial Conservatory.
Tune in to Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff on 891 ABC Radio, between 1-4pm on Tuesdays to listen to the interviews.
The Grand Lodge of Freemasons
As it approaches its 100th anniversary, step inside the hallowed halls of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in Adelaide. Built in the 1920s, the lodge is five storeys of ornate architecture.
“It’s in a style that is known as the inter-war free classical style,” heritage architect Bruce Harry told 891 ABC Adelaide’s Sonya Feldhoff. No doubt controversial in its day, the architects did away with the traditional style of British freemasons and moved towards an American, new-world design.
Read the article on ABC News online.
The Colonial Mutual Life Building
The Colonial Mutual Life (CML) building of Adelaide has transformed several times in the past eight decades, but it is its heritage-listed facade that holds the most interest.
“It was built in 1934, right in the middle of the Great Depression,” architect Kerstin Bruneder told 891 ABC Adelaide’s Afternoons program. Ms Bruneder said the building was constructed in a Romanesque-style and was the tallest building in the city for 35 years.
Read the article on ABC News online.
The Torrens Drill Hall Building
The prestigious white Torrens Drill Hall is celebrating its 80th year this year. To mark the occasion, 891 ABC Adelaide took a tour of the site, which was previously used for a quarry and rubbish dump.
Today the hall still houses some of South Australia’s historical war treasures. Two smaller buildings — a hall and a storage shed — were originally built on the site, before the current building opened on September 22, 1936.
Read the article on ABC News online.
Adelaide Stock Exchange Building
Dwarfed by surrounding high-rises, Adelaide’s Stock Exchange building makes up in history what it lacks in size.
Opened in 1901, the Edwardian/Federation-style building was the operational home of the exchange until 1991. It then remained unused until it was bought by the State Government in 2007, restored, and reopened in 2009.
Read the article on ABC News online.
Christopher Smith art deco home in Prospect
An art deco house in Prospect, built in 1938 by renowned style architect Christopher Smith, remains a highlight of the Adelaide suburb.
David O’Loughlin, owner, convener of the Art Deco Society of Adelaide and Mayor of Prospect, took 891 ABC Adelaide Afternoon host Sonya Feldhoff and heritage architect David Brown for a tour. Prominent in the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, art deco became popular due to its simplicity of construction — square blocks with decorative shapes added on.
Read the article on ABC News online.
The Marine Terraces of Grange Beach
Built in 1884, The Marine Terraces at Grange Beach are the only three-storey Victorian-styled terraces ever built on Australia’s coastline.
The block of eight are only one-third of what was originally planned for the site, with dreams of a 24-terrace site not eventuating. Developers built the Grange Jetty, pub and terraces with a spur on the Port Adelaide rail line to help deliver Adelaide’s rich to their beachside residences.
Read the article on ABC News online.