The new London Building. Photo by Adam da Cruz.
A new multi-purpose education facility was the highlight of the ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus Community Open Day on Saturday 2 June. Designed by leading Australian eco-architect Paul Downton, the new 'London Building' is a solar-passive, straw-bale facility that includes a 150-seat hall, two seminar rooms and exhibition spaces which will be available for use by community groups as well as University members. A purpose-built museum space houses a collection of West African artefacts gifted by Joy London, who gave the Kioloa campus to ANU in 1975 in memory of her mother Edith. The campus includes one and a half kilometres of beachfront and runs two and a half kilometres inland into Murramarang Range. During the Open Day, members of ANU and the community were entertained with art exhibitions from the furniture and glass workshops at the ANU School of Art, live music performances by the ANU School of Music, Questacon science displays, student research projects and tours of the campus' community garden. The visitors were welcomed with a traditional Indigenous smoking ceremony and ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young helped to plant a tree in honour of the occasion. Professor Tim Senden, Chair of the Kioloa Advisory Board, says the event celebrated the relationship between ANU and the South Coast community.
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