The central body of Adelaide Town Hall was built between 1863 and 1866, Swanbury Penglase director Andrew Klenke begins as he delves into the painstaking restoration of one of the state’s most important buildings.

“The amazing thing about the Town Hall is, I’ve looked at a lot of heritage places over the years, but I think in terms of conclusions, I’d have to say that the Town Hall’s probably one of the most significant,” Klenke, who leads his firm’s heritage conservation and adaptive reuse team, says.

Swanbury Penglase was the architecture firm involved in a comprehensive, two-year-long, $6.2 million conservation of the Town Hall’s façade, alongside Australian contracting company Duratec.

Duratec senior project manager James Biven, who oversaw the Adelaide Town Hall façade conservation

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