UTS Ku-ring-gai

My last eighteen months have been tied up completing post-grad studies at the UTS Ku-ring-gai Campus' in Sydney's North Shore. The campus is housing it's final intake of students before the university apparently sells it on to the military next year and all classes are moved to the city campus at Ultimo. The campus and at times the journey through the North Shore is an eerie experience. Below are a series of photos took in between classes and in transit to and fro, mainly during April this year. The UTS Ku-ring-gai campus itself is a an incredible modernist monolith, reminiscent of the minimalist architecture of the 1960's and 70s that you get the feeling was celebrated as visionary in it's day while seeming much the opposite now; though l think contemporary architecture still takes plenty of its cues from this perioud, there is largely the feeling in the campus halls that this enormous castle conceived with the greatest expectations has now been utterly forgotten; hiding these days in a bed of eucalyptus trees, camouflaged already for the military occupation next year..

Jim S