School of Geosciences

Madsen building

Start Date: September 2006
Completion Date: January 2008

The vision

Heritage at the crossroads

The relocation of the School of Information Technologies into the new building on Cleveland Street freed up space in the Madsen building for the two divisions of the School of Geosciences to be located together on the Camperdown campus for the first time.

The consolidation of the School of Geosciences along with the upgraded laboratory and research facilities will strengthen the school and cement its position as a modern, internationally orientated school at the forefront of environmental and marine science teaching and research.

The Madsen building was developed during the 1940s, its combination of Gothic Revival and Art Deco influence adding significantly to the Camperdown campus from an aesthetic and heritage perspective.

Madsen originally served as the CSIRO National Standards Laboratory and was renovated in 1978 and handed over to the University by the CSIRO. Strategically located on the corner of Eastern Avenue and Fisher Road its architecture and physical position puts it at a crossroads both of time - between the grand old sandstone buldings of the 1920s and the newer properties of the 1950s and 1960s - and of location sited as it is between the Camperdown and Darlington campuses.