Building Details - Architects of South Australia

Facade only. Became the South Australian Harbors Board Building, then the Victoria Square branch of the ANZ Bank.
The construction of the SGIC building on the corner of Grote Street and Victoria Square in 1979, required an undertaking new to Australia, the moving of the four storey 1884 classic façade of what was originally the National Mutual Life Assurance Company office. Sir Eric von Schramek's firm contributed to the method which saw the façade ‘rolled’ 34 metres ‘northwards at the rate of three metres an hour’ (Page 1986: 258).