Editing University of Sydney (section)

===Main campus===
[[File:University of Sydney's Main Quadrangle.jpg|thumb|The Quad Building]]
The main campus is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington, and has been noted for its beautiful architecture and quadrangle.<ref name="The Daily Telegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/expateducation/9480575/Beautiful-universities-around-the-world.html?frame=2312132 |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |title=Beautiful universities around the world |date=31 August 2012 |access-date=3 April 2018 |language=en-GB |archive-date=13 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213180746/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/expateducation/9480575/Beautiful-universities-around-the-world.html?frame=2312132 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="huffingtonpost.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/11/worlds-most-beautiful-universities_n_3578402.html#slide=2682402 |title=15 of the World's Most Beautiful Universities Revealed |website=The Huffington Post UK |date=11 July 2013 |access-date=30 July 2013 |archive-date=13 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113092956/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/11/worlds-most-beautiful-universities_n_3578402.html#slide=2682402 |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:The Great Hall, Sydney Uni.jpg|thumb|[[The Great Hall, the University of Sydney|The Great Hall]], statue of founder [[William Wentworth|William Charles Wentworth]] in the foreground]]
[[File:USYD Quadrangle (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[University of Sydney Quadrangle|The Quadrangle]]]]
Originally housed in what is now [[Sydney Grammar School]], in 1855 the government granted land in Grose Farm to the university, three kilometres from the city, which is now the main [[Camperdown, New South Wales|Camperdown]] campus. In 1854, the architect [[Edmund Blacket]] accepted a senate invitation for the first buildings to be designed. In 1858 the [[Great Hall of the University of Sydney|Great Hall]] was finished, and in 1859 the Main Building was built. He composed the original Neo-Gothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862.<ref name=":1" /> The rapid expansion of the university in the mid-20th century resulted in the acquisition of land in Darlington across [[City Road, Sydney|City Road]]. The Camperdown/Darlington campus houses the university's administrative headquarters, and the Faculties of Arts, Science, Education and Social Work, Pharmacy, Veterinary Science, Economics and Business, [[University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning|Architecture]], and Engineering. It is also the home base of the large [[Sydney Medical School]], which has numerous affiliated teaching hospitals across the state.

The main campus is also the focus of the university's student life, with the student-run [[University of Sydney Union]] (once referred to as "the Union", but now known as "the USU") in possession of three buildings – Wentworth, Manning and Holme Buildings. These buildings house a large proportion of the university's catering outlets, and provide space for recreational rooms, bars and function centres. One of the largest activities organised by the Union is Welcome Week (formerly Orientation Week or 'O-week'), a three-day festival at the start of the academic year. Welcome Week centres on stalls set up by clubs and societies on the Front Lawns.<ref>"[http://honisoit.com/2019/02/whats-in-a-name-o-week-becomes-welcome-week/ What's in a name? O-Week becomes Welcome Week"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627180357/http://honisoit.com/2019/02/whats-in-a-name-o-week-becomes-welcome-week/ |date=27 June 2019 }}. ''Honi Soit''. Retrieved 28/6/19.</ref>

The main campus is home to a variety of statues, artworks, and monuments. These include the [[Gilgamesh Statue (University of Sydney)|Gilgamesh Statue]] and the Confucius Statue.

Some other architects associated with the university were [[Walter Liberty Vernon]], [[Walter Burley Griffin]], [[Leslie Wilkinson]], and the [[New South Wales Government Architect]].<ref name=":1" /> The building was designed in accordance with the university's masterplan by the architect and founding dean of the [[University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning|university's architecture faculty]], [[Leslie Wilkinson]], who himself was inspired by a previously unused masterplan developed for the campus by Walter Burley Griffin in 1915.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/grimshaw-completes-gateway-administration-building-for-university-of-sydney/ |title=Grimshaw completes 'gateway' administration building for University of Sydney |website=ArchitectureAU |access-date=2019-06-14 |archive-date=5 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505232835/https://architectureau.com/articles/grimshaw-completes-gateway-administration-building-for-university-of-sydney/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:USYD MacLaurin Hall A14D SEP2019.jpg|thumb|The MacLaurin Hall]]
The 2002 conservation plan of the university stated that the Main Building and Quadrangle, Anderson Stuart Building, Gate Lodges, St Paul's College, St John's College and St Andrew's College "comprise what is arguably the most important group of [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] and [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival style architecture]] in Australia, and the landscape and grounds features associated with these buildings, including [[Victoria Park, Sydney|Victoria Park]], contribute to and support the existence and appreciation of their architectural qualities and aesthetic significance."<ref name=":1" />

In 2015, [[Department of Planning and Environment (New South Wales)|The NSW Department of Planning and Environment]] endorsed The University of Sydney's $1.4&nbsp;billion Campus Improvement Plan which involved a number of new important structures and renovations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/green-light-for-sydney-unis-14-billion-masterplan/ |title=Green light for Sydney Uni's $1.4 billion masterplan |website=ArchitectureAU |access-date=2019-06-14 |archive-date=30 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330080320/https://architectureau.com/articles/green-light-for-sydney-unis-14-billion-masterplan/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Physics Road, University of Sydney.jpg|thumb|Sports fields along Physics Road]]
As of 2016, the university is undertaking a large capital works program with the aim of revitalising the campus and providing more office, teaching and student space.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/c2010/about/summary.shtml |title=Campus 2010 + Building for the Future |website=University of Sydney |access-date=11 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006161840/http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/c2010/about/summary.shtml |archive-date=6 October 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The program will see the amalgamation of the smaller science and technical libraries into a larger library, and the construction of a central administration and student services building along City Road. A new building for the School of Information Technologies opened in late 2006 and has been located on a site adjacent to the [[Seymour Centre]]. The busy Eastern Avenue thoroughfare has been transformed into a pedestrian plaza and a new footbridge has been built over City Road. The new home for the [[Sydney Law School]], located alongside Fisher Library on the site of the old [[Edgeworth David]] and Stephen Roberts buildings, has been completed. The university opened a new building called "Abercrombie Building" for business school students in early 2016.

The NSW state government has reduced transport links to the old campus and the closest [[Redfern railway station]] leaving main access to buses on the neighbouring [[Parramatta Road]] and [[City Road, Sydney|City Road]], prioritising the growth at other Sydney universities.<ref>{{cite news |author=Matt O'Sullivan |title=Sydney Uni lashes out at government over 'serious impact' of train timetable changes |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-uni-lashes-out-at-government-over-serious-impact-of-train-timetable-changes-20171130-gzvpoq.html |date=30 November 2017 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=1 December 2017 |language=en-AU |archive-date=30 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130211517/http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-uni-lashes-out-at-government-over-serious-impact-of-train-timetable-changes-20171130-gzvpoq.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

From 2007, the university has used space in the former [[Eveleigh, New South Wales|Eveleigh]] railway yards, just to the south of [[Darlington, New South Wales|Darlington]], for examination purposes.

In 2018, [[Minister for Heritage (New South Wales)|New South Wales Minister for Heritage]], [[Gabrielle Upton]] agreed to put the University of Sydney and some adjacent sites on the state heritage register, creating a conservation area that would include the [[Camperdown, New South Wales|Camperdown]] campus, and the nearby [[Victoria Park, Sydney|Victoria Park]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/university-of-sydney-receives-state-heritage-listing/ |title=University of Sydney receives state heritage listing |website=ArchitectureAU |access-date=2019-05-08 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508220047/https://architectureau.com/articles/university-of-sydney-receives-state-heritage-listing/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The beginning of 2021 saw the closure of the Cumberland campus, with a number of health disciplines moving to the Camperdown campus in the state-of-the-art, purpose built Susan Wakil Health Building.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/locations-and-facilities/susan-wakil-health-building.html |title=Susan Wakil Health Building |website=University of Sydney |access-date=2021-02-03 |archive-date=19 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119084518/https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/locations-and-facilities/susan-wakil-health-building.html |url-status=live}}</ref>