Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) Building

Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) Building

The former Australian Mutual Provident Society Building is representative of the development and continued rise in the importance of insurance and financial institutions in South Australia and in particular the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Completed in 1936 it was built as the new State headquarters of the AMP replacing smaller premises built for the Society on the same site in 1880. The building is currently used as the headquarters for Origin Energy.

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The building is considered as significant for being designed by the notable Adelaide architect Louis Laybourne-Smith considered one of the key practitioners of architecture in South Australia in the first half of the Twentieth Century. It is architecturally significant as a representative example of a 1930s multi-storey commercial building now becoming rare in Adelaide and is of high integrity. Its classically derived form and abstracted details illustrate one of the common architectural styles of the period. It is concrete framed in construction and fully integrates services such as lifts external shutters and distributed heating systems within a centrally located services core. The building also includes an evaporative mechanical ventilation system an innovative feature at the date of its construction. (Adapted from Danvers Architects Pty Ltd Conservation Plan 1996)

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Architects
Louis Laybourne Smith
Builders
Building materials
Stone, Sandstone
Architectural styles
2 Victorian Period (c. 1840–c. 1890), 2.4 Academic Classical
Construction
1889 -  

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Description
Construction commenced
4/7/2018
Construction completed
4/7/2018
Architecture and design features
Engineering features
 
Precinct
West End
Council Ward
Central
Alternative Addresses
Geo-coordinates
Town Acre
47
Planning Zone or Policy Area
Original owners
Original occupant
Later occupant/s
Purposes and use
Civic, Commercial, Office
AS2482 classification
11510 - Business House - Offices
Public Access
Business/trading hours
 
NTSA ID
State Heritage ID
11574
ACC Reference No.
DPTI Heritage No.
1261
RNE ID
1261
Certificate of Title No.
CT 5975/193 C23717 L103 CT 5975/194 C23717 L105 CT 5975/195 C23717 L106 CT 5975/196 C23717 L107 CT 5975/199 C23717 L201 CT 5975/200 C23717 L202 CT 5975/201 C23717 L203 CT 5975/202 C23717 L205 CT 5975/203 C23717 L206 CT 5975/204 C23717 L207 CT 5975/205 C23717 L208 CT 5975/206 C23717 L209 CT 5975/207 C23717 L301 CT 5975/208 C23717 L302 CT 5975/209 C23717 L303 CT 5975/210 C23717 L305 CT 5975/211 C23717 A306 CT 5975/212 C23717 L307 CT 5975/213 C23717 L308 CT 5975/214 C23717 L309 CT 5975/215 C23717 L501 CT 5975/216 C23717 L502 CT 5975/217 C23717 L503 CT 5975/218 C23717 L505 CT 5975/219 C23717 L506 CT 5975/220 C23717 L507 CT 5975/221 C23717 L508 CT 5975/222 C23717 L509 CT 5975/223 C23717 L601 CT 5975/224 C23717 L602 CT 5975/225 C23717 L603 CT 5975/226 C23717 L605 CT 5975/227 C23717 L606 CT 5975/228 C23717 L607 CT 5975/229 C23717 L608 CT 5975/230 C23717 L609 CT 5975/231 C23717 L701 CT 5975/232 C23717 L702 CT 5975/233 C23717 L703 CT 5975/234 C23717 L705 CT 5975/235 C23717 L706 CT 5975/236 C23717 L707 CT 5975/237 C23717 L708 CT 5975/238 C23717 L709 CT 5975/239 C23717 L801 CT 5975/240 C23717 L802 CT 5975/241 C23717 L803 CT 5975/242 C23717 L805 CT 5975/243 C23717 L806 CT 5975/244 C23717 L807 CT 5975/245 C23717 L808 CT 5975/246 C23717 L809 CT 5975/247 C23717 L901 CT 5975/248 C23717 L902 CT 5975/249 C23717 L903 CT 5975/250 C23717 L905 CT 5975/251 C23717 L906 CT 5975/252 C23717 L907 CT 5975/253 C23717 L908 CT 5975/254 C23717 L909 CT 5975/255 C23717 L1001 CT 5975/256 C23717 L1002 CT 5975/257 C23717 L1003 CT 5975/258 C23717 L1005 CT 5975/259 C23717 L1006 CT 5975/260 C23717 L1007 CT 5975/262 C23717 L1009 CT 5975/261 C23717 L1008 CT 5981/752 C23717 A1010 CT 5981/753 C23717 LCP CT 6006/542 C23717 A61 CT 6006/539 C23717 A62 CT 6006/540 C23717 A108 CT 6006/541 C23717 A109
NTSA file exists
No
Heritage Status
State Heritage listed
State heritage listing
State Heritage listed
Date of State heritage listing
Local heritage listing
Date of Local heritage listing
NTSA listing
Date of NTSA listing
Section 23 (4) crtiteria
Risk status
 
Historic Themes
3 Developing a City Economy
3.1.6 Mid-1880s Recession
3.3 Financing Adelaide
3.3.3 Other Financial Institutions
3.7 Working Men and Women
3.7.3 Office Workers
Topics
Insurance
 
Australian Curriculum references
Year 5: The Australian Colonies
ACHHK097
 

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