Melbourne Uni

Classes started this week, and I have been spending nearly all day every day on campus shopping classes and running beginning-of-the-semester errands. Here are some sights from the school that I regularly pass.

The Clock Tower

The Clock Tower is part of the original and therefore the oldest building of the campus where my department (Philosophy) and the Faculty of Arts are housed. The light brown-ish building is the Old Arts building and the white-ish one is the Old Quad.

Old Arts and Clock Tower



from the north (back)



from the south


(Can you tell I like this building?)


One more of the Old Arts

Old Arts, Old Quad, and the South Lawn (on the left)

The Old Quad is really nice. It has the architecture of a cloister: four corridors forming a square with a courtyard in the middle. The corridors have beautiful columns and arched ceilings.

Courtyard

Corridor



Corridor with view into Old Quad coutryard



View of Old Arts through arch at the end of a corridor

Unfortunately, much of the original structure is gone and the rest of the buildings were (re)designed in the 70s and are accordingly unattractive. For example...

University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine

The business school is a little snazzier and is newer, but I prefer the old buildings.

Melbourne Uni Business School

They have also disguised some of their buildings with a more classical facade, which they simply purchased from other city buildings that I assume no longer exist. For example...

The Architecture building

This facade came from a bank. You can see that it is attached to a larger brick building right behind it. There's also...

The Carpark

i.e., a parking lot. You can see the light shining off tops of the cars inside.

The Guardians of the Carpark

For those of you ladies who are wondering, these are the only hunks I've seen. Maybe it's because I'm in Philosophy...

Hope you've enjoyed this little virtual tour.