Category: Buildings

  1. George Hicks Building

    George Lyndon Hicks was a resident at International House from 1958 to 1959. He first became interested in aspects of Asian politics and culture at school; his interests expanded while he was studying Arts at the University of Melbourne (Larkins, 2018, p. 27). In 1959, George Hicks became involved in the Immigration Reform Group, a […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2021/09/13/george-hicks-building

  2. The Samuel Wadham Wing: ‘A microcosm of the world’

    The second purpose-built accommodation wing at International House, ‘Wadham’, opened in 1963. Planning for Wadham had begun in earnest in 1960, when International House launched an appeal to raise money for a new building. The goal was to raise £250,000 (equivalent to more than 7.5 million dollars in 2020 1) to construct accommodation for an […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2021/03/22/the-samuel-wadham-wing

  3. What happened to the squash court?

    Now demolished, the International House squash court was on the site now occupied by the Multi-Purpose Study Room. Funding for the court was provided by the Sunshine Foundation (a charitable foundation established by the family of the industrialist H. V. McKay) and Dame Hilda Stevenson (H. V. McKay’s daughter and the foundation’s chair). The court […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/10/10/what-happened-to-the-squash-court

  4. When did the Founders’ Building open?

    Built on the site of the old International House squash court, the building we know as Founders’ was completed in November 2004 and opened on 11 February 2005 (Larkins, 2018, 165).1 But the building wasn’t yet called Founders’; instead it was simply the ‘New Building’ (Munro, 2008, 3). The building was named in 2008, after […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/27/when-did-the-founders-building-open

  5. Why is Scheps that shape?

    The hexadecagonal (sixteen-sided) Scheps building is a familiar Royal Parade landmark. But why is Scheps that shape? Scheps appears to be a ‘rescaled version’ of a similar, sixteen-sided building in Hobart in Tasmania, the Wrest Point Casino (Larkins, 2018, p. 84). However, the casino was built by a different construction company, A. V. Jennings Industries […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/20/why-is-scheps-that-shape

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