Brutalist Adelaide Walking Tour | 23 Aug 11am

Schedule

Sun Aug 23 2026 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+09:30
Location

Wakefield House | Adelaide, SA

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About this Event

Celebrate the era of bell-bottoms, Bowie and board-marked concrete, when Adelaide's modernist architects seized on brutalism's sculptural and structural possibilities.

Brutalism is winning back admirers around the world – and Adelaide has one of its best-kept archives, with an unusually intact collection of brutalist buildings, preserved by our low pollution and Mediterranean climate.

This one-hour walk through downtown Adelaide, led by award-winning mid-century architecture enthusiast Stuart Symons, explores some of the city's finest brutalist buildings, from the Forensic Science Centre and the former Motor Registration Centre to government headquarters and banking chambers.

Places are limited. Find out more about Modernist Adelaide at modernistadelaide.com

Weather policy: the walking tour will go ahead rain or shine.

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Where is it happening?

Wakefield House, 30 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, Australia

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Tickets

AUD 22.49

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