Posts Tagged ‘buildings’
Two locations at the University of Melbourne
System Garden
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Located near the Botany and Zoology buildings, this is a lovely place that is off the main track, so is often more peaceful than South Lawn or the Concrete Lawn. Many trees abound, a miniature forest of bamboo grows (the bamboo isn’t miniature, rather it is the size of the forest), a tower that appears to have no purpose stands – serenity can be found. Well, sort of. If it is a nice day and it is lunch time, be sure to find it full of people relaxing by themselves of with friends.
Baldwin Spencer Theatre
This is one of the oldest lecture theatres I have been in. On the wooden bench-tops, someone had engraved “class of 1920″. Seems that students scrawling on desks is not new by any account. It is in the Baldwin Spencer building, which some rough Google-fuelled research tells me was constructed in 1888. The man after whom it is named, a Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (whose other titles include: KCMG MA DSc LittD CMG FRS Hon. Fellow Exeter College, Oxford) looks something like this:
the man
...his theatre
The lecture theatre itself is horribly uncomfortable. Hard seats and sloping benches make it very difficult to fall asleep in, though some still manage.
