Talk:List of nationally significant 20th-century architecture in South Australia

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It's very nice, but ...

Latest comment: 10 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

In good faith, an editor moved (renamed) this page to "List of heritage listed buildings in Adelaide".
It's a nice name. Sadly, it doesn't reflect the contents of the page. Pdfpdf (talk) 17:08, 7 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Also, the new name is not correct as some of the buildings will not have any heritage listing either local government, SA Government or Commonwealth due to being recently completed, i.e. after the 1950s. Cowdy001 (talk) 22:53, 7 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

See my comments on this at User talk:Pdfpdf. The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:47, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

There are several problems with the current name of this list:

Not all the buildings are in Adelaide - it includes examples in regional South Australia such as in Victor Harbor, Penola, Whyalla and Mount Gambier
Not all of the list entries are heritage-listed, either at State or local government level
Not all of the buildings still exist - e.g. Union Hall (Adelaide) was demolished in 2010.

As for the suggestion that it could be renamed to "buildings that have won notable architecture awards ...", it is worth first taking a look at the article on the Australian Institute of Architects, which shows that this national peak professional body only came into existence in 1930 (prior to this there were various state-based bodies), and that at present both the national body and the individual state chapters issue a large number of awards in various categories - 12 awards in SA alone, presumably of very differing notability.

The original title of this WP List (List of Nationally Significant 20th-Century Architecture in South Australia) was based on that of the AIA list - "Nationally Significant 20th-Century Architecture", on the subscription-based AIA website. Since I don't have direct access, I can only presume that it's part of a series of lists for all the states, and that it has been vetted or reviewed at a fairly high level within the AIA - although not signed, it does carry the AIA's logo.

As Dr Darren Peacock (executive officer of the National Trust of SA) will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Adelaide Wikipedia Users Group on 23 July, it might be worth inviting a representative from the AiA's SA chapter, as well as an academic from the UniSA School of Art, Architecture and Design's Architecture Museum for a robust exploration of the issues. (Since the AWUG meetings are held at UniSA, it might be possible to arrange teleconferencing should anyone so desire.) Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

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