RSPCA Animal Care Centre in Adelaide
post updated 4 September 2026
Architect: Ashley Halliday Architects
Location: Ityamaiitpinna Yarta (Glenthorne National Park), O’halloran Hill, Adelaide, South Australia
Photos: Anthony Basheer
24 April 2025
The new Animal Care Campus at Ityamaiitpinna Yarta (Glenthorne National Park) demonstrates RSPCA’s commitment to worlds best practice animal care standards whilst creating a vibrant community destination hub. It offers a broad array of animal care and welfare education, training programs, volunteer and allied welfare support spaces, as well as fostering and adoption services.
As RSPCA are a registered charity reliant largely on donations the construction of such a large and complex campus had to be done under strict budget control. A modular steel portal frame, recurring across several of the buildings combined with the repeated gable end architectural form provided a very efficient building typology. The creases in the roofline de-industrialises the building forms and reduces the built scale or the development.
The complex and diverse brief required a broad array of animal care facilities. This is best demonstrated in the Animal Care Centre. A highly innovative, state of the art veterinary centre which simultaneously handles the needs of domestic and wildlife species in separate wings with a shared theatre zone. These wings give the RSPCA flexibility to quickly adapt during disasters such as bushfire and swing both wings into wildlife care, a key recommendation to come out of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements.
The new campus has a focus on creating opportunities for public education and training spaces. Inviting the public to participate in a range of activities in order to provide preventative animal welfare services and minimise the number of animals coming into their care.
RSPCA Animal Care Centre in Adelaide, South Australia – Building Information
Architect: Ashley Halliday Architects – https://ashleyhalliday.com/
Project size: 5700 sqm
Completion date: 2024
Photographer: Anthony Basheer
RSPCA Animal Care Centre, O’halloran Hill, Adelaide building images / information received 240425
Location: Ityamaiitpinna Yarta – Glenthorne National Park, O’halloran Hill, Adelaide, South Australia.
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