What are the Mall’s Balls in Rundle Mall, Adelaide?

The Mall’s Balls is one of Adelaide’s great meeting places. You’ll find this four metre tall art installation on Rundle Mall in the city centre.

For a long time, “meet you by the Mall’s Balls” has been a standard arrangement in Adelaide. The Mall’s Balls is one of great meeting spots in the South Australian capital, along with the Haigh’s ‘Beehive’ building and Adelaide Railway Station.

But what is the Mall’s Balls and where can an unknowing outsider find this curious meeting spot?

**15 fabulous Adelaide experiences to supercharge your visit**

DOLPHINS 🐬: Swim with wild dolphins, kayak with the resident bottlenose pod or watch them on a dolphin cruise.
FOOD AND WINE 🍷: Indulge on Adelaide food tour including Adelaide Central Market. Or try a wine discovery tour with tastings at the National Wine Centre. Or the ultimate Penfolds Magill Estate experience with full estate tour & Grange tasting.
WILDLIFE 🐨: Spot koalas on a guided Morialta nature hike. Or walk from Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty with entrance to Cleland Wildlife Park.
CRUISES ⛵: Watch the sun set on a twilight coastal cruise, get to know the city on a Torrens River cruise or take a high tea cruise aboard the Popeye.
SPORT 🏏: Dare to take on the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb or enter the fabled scoreboard on the behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
ACTION 🚵‍♂️: Descend Mount Lofty on a downhill mountain bike tour or kayak along the Torrens River.

What is the Mall’s Balls?

Well, the Mall’s Balls is officially known as the Spheres. It’s an art installation featuring two steel spheres stacked on top of each other. Together, they’re about four metres tall, and the steel is polished to be reflective. This makes the Spheres a good spot for unusual-looking selfies. It’s effectively doing what Cloud Gate in Chicago was doing well before Chicago got the idea.

Interaction was always the aim of this artwork, which was installed by Vienna-born artist Bert Flugelman in 1977.

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Barossa Valley tours: 1. Wine-tasting with lunch 🍷. 2. Food and wine tour. 3. Small group wine tour with exclusive VIP tastings.
Kangaroo Island in a day – including sea lions 🦭, koalas 🐨and national parks.
Adelaide Hills tours: 1. Sights plus Murray River lunch cruise combo. 2. Small group cheese, chocolate & wine tour with Hahndorf German village.
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Victor Harbor and southern highlights tour – including the Granite Island horse-drawn tram.

Mall’s Balls location in Adelaide

The Mall’s Balls is on Rundle Mall, Adelaide’s main shopping strip. It’s opposite the Adelaide Central Plaza shopping centre and a few steps from the Adelaide Arcade. A stylised outline of the Spheres has been adopted as Rundle Mall’s logo.

Things to do in Adelaide include a wine-tasting day tour to the Barossa Valley wine region, swimming with dolphins and going for a cruise along the River Torrens.