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The picturesque Lake was incrementally filled and eventually converted into the Union Lawn. The filling of the lake began during the construction of the New Chemistry Building in 1930s.The New Chemistry Building was supposed to be built in a more…

A shared path running in the east-west direction, connecting Swanston Street to the central section of the campus, Masson Road took its shape as a street during the rectangularisation of the campus in the 1930s. The street had existed before, but was…

Professor of Architecture, Brian Lewis proposed a master plan in 1948. He proposed that all tall buildings should act as the perimeter of the campus site to keep the traditional centre of the University open. Another radical move in his plan was that…

Several master plans were proposed by the Professor of Agriculture, Thomas Cherry and Professor of Anatomy, Richard Berr. Eventually, an architect, George de Lacy Evans, was hired to propose another master plan. None of these plans were ever…

Aerial View of the campus from the west side, Royal Parade with the New Medical Precinct under construction, and the completed Redmond Barry Building. An increase in high rise and modernist buildings is clearly visible.

In this time period there were visible changes being made in the larger campus planning. Public Works Department Chief Architect, Percy Everett, attempted to rectangularise the campus building clusters.

Before the Parkville site, the site proposed for the University was on Spring Street, where the Treasury Building now stands. This proposal was rejected and another proposal was made and granted for the current site in the same year, 1853.

In the…

The Master Plan 2008 proposed nine planning principles for future development, which articulated key environmental, conservation and urban design issues to assist realising the vision, Growing Esteem.

Growing Esteem was the University’s visionary…

In March 1971 the Council of the University of Melbourne gave authority for the release of the University of Melbourne Master Plan Report 1970 under the seal of the University. The principles of the 1970 Report have governed the development of the…

Established in 1856, "In the north-west corner of the site (campus grounds) was another striking feature, the system garden, a botanical garden created by Bateman and the Professor of Natural Science, Fredrick McCoy." (Goad & Tibbits, 2003, pp. 15).

The University of Melbourne was established on swampland, fed by creeks. A creek, known as Townend Creek, flowed along what became Elizabeth Street, out into the Yarra, it was an extension of another stream that began inside the University, and…

"The first glimpse of the Master Plan 1970 was realised in the South Lawn and Underground Car Park" (Goad & Tibbits, 2003, pp.131) The car park was constructed in 1971 to cope with the demand for student and staff parking on campus. It has been a…

Formerly known as the Anatomy building, and later the Richard Berry Building. This building was renamed in December 2016 after Peter Hall, researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The renaming (from the Richard Berry building)…

Formerly known as Arts and Education building the Old Arts building was designed by the Victorian Department of Public Works and constructed between 1919 and 1924. It became known as Old Arts when the nearby Babel, or "new" Arts Building opened in…

Formerly known as Arts South, the modernist John Medley building was named after the Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1938-1951. It was designed by Roy Grounds and constructed between 1969 and 1971, with the aim of relieving the crowding in the…

Built in 1899, the Engineering Building was the home of the first permanent Engineering course in Australia. Its construction was jointly funded by Professor William Charles Kernot, and the Government.

Built in 1885, first known as New Medical Building then Old Pathology, it was the first expansion of the medical school at the University of Melbourne (the first medical school in Australia). The building was remodelled in 1908 and a second storey…

Opened in 1888 as the Biology School under the direction of Baldwin Spencer, the first professor of biology at the University of Melbourne. The building contained a lecture theatre, teaching museum, and laboratories. In 1899 further rooms were added.…

University House was the first professorial house built on the campus in 1884 for Professor Nanson (Mathematics). An additional six were built in 1887 where the Baillieu Library now stands. University House is the only remaining professorial house of…