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There had been several things I was interested in seeing in the City of Adelaide even when we last visited, in 2020, but many of them that year we didn't have time to get to. Since this time we stayed in a hotel in the central business district (CBD), it gave us a lot of opportunity to check out things we didn't previously get to see—or, I suppose, things I didn't get to see; I was the only one with any real agenda, aside from Shobhit suggesting we visit the d'Arenberg Cube.
Anyway. On my list yet again: Rundle Mall, which is a pretty basic outdoor pedestrian-only street that also functions as a mall. What sets this one apart, however, is its really fun public art pieces, which were the reason I wanted to go there: the pigs rummaging through garbage, which have been there since 1999; a giant cubist metalic pigeon that was just unveiled in late 2020 (so that one wasn't even there yet when we last visited); or the evident centerpiece, The Spheres, a 13-ft (4 meter) tall stack of two silver spheres which were donated to the City of Adelaide in 1977 by the Hindmarsh Building Society to mark their centennary (only to wind up merging with Adelaide Bank in 1994, ha!), but locals apparently call them "the Mall's Balls." There are several other art pieces in the mall as well, but these three seem to be the biggest attractors.
03022033-028
There had been several things I was interested in seeing in the City of Adelaide even when we last visited, in 2020, but many of them that year we didn't have time to get to. Since this time we stayed in a hotel in the central business district (CBD), it gave us a lot of opportunity to check out things we didn't previously get to see—or, I suppose, things I didn't get to see; I was the only one with any real agenda, aside from Shobhit suggesting we visit the d'Arenberg Cube.
Anyway. On my list yet again: Rundle Mall, which is a pretty basic outdoor pedestrian-only street that also functions as a mall. What sets this one apart, however, is its really fun public art pieces, which were the reason I wanted to go there: the pigs rummaging through garbage, which have been there since 1999; a giant cubist metalic pigeon that was just unveiled in late 2020 (so that one wasn't even there yet when we last visited); or the evident centerpiece, The Spheres, a 13-ft (4 meter) tall stack of two silver spheres which were donated to the City of Adelaide in 1977 by the Hindmarsh Building Society to mark their centennary (only to wind up merging with Adelaide Bank in 1994, ha!), but locals apparently call them "the Mall's Balls." There are several other art pieces in the mall as well, but these three seem to be the biggest attractors.