When I was a student here 10 years ago I despised the tall cream brick buildings on campus, much preferring the older, sandstone, gothic-style buildings.
A decade later, I’m in love with mid-century modern (and blogs like Modernist Australia).Walking through campus I feast my eyes on the clean lines of the Babel building, dating from 1946, which was named Babel because it housed the language departments.
The Raymond Priestley building at the centre of campus, too, has bold, optimistic lines, floating on its white colonnade.
I love the boldness of the design, its assumption that progress is naturally good.
