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Industrial (IND)

Perhaps more than any other city in Australia, the greater urban area of Melbourne has always been home to small to medium scale manufacturing and processing associated with textiles and clothing, building materials and food processing. We therefore chose a strong representative example of this kind of industrial, modern facility in the Sanitarium Factory site and the nearby Signs factory. Both factories exhibit the early transfer of Modernism to represent a new of manufacturing.

However more unique to Australia were the purpose-built towns, often located in remote locations across the country, that were developed as company towns to build communities for populations dedicated to mining and resources development, hydro-power schemes, and defense. It is for this reason that we chose the town site of Woomera as deserving of documentation. Here, through both purpose-built infrastructure and a heavy reliance on prefabrication, a extraordinary fully-planned settlement for the weapons-testing industry was constructed in the Australian desert.

The NSW selection includes an early example of the use of modern architect in the public realm, the School of Automotive Trades at the Sydney Institute of Technology and also a relatively unknown work of Marcel Breuer, part of his series of factory buildings for the Torin corporation. These two buildings are amongst the best examples of modern architecture applied to factory and workshop buildings in the state.

(Editor working party: Dr Scott Robertson)

Signs Publishing Company | 1935 | VIC

May 29, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Industrial (IND), News, Register Australia, Victoria Register Tagged: 1930s, Edward Bilson, fiche, Industrial, Peter Johnson, Victoria, Warburton

Former Torin Building | 1974-76 | NSW

May 27, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Industrial (IND), NSW Register, Register Australia Tagged: 1970s, fiche, Harry Seidler, Herbert Beckhard, industry, Marcel Breuer, Max Dupain, Noni Boyd

Rothbury Estate Winery | 1970 | NSW

May 26, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Industrial (IND), NSW Register, Register Australia Tagged: 1970s, industry, John Allen, Keith Cottier, Russell Jack

Woomera Village | 1947 | SA

May 10, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Industrial (IND), Industry and Modernism, Register Australia, SA Register Tagged: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Charles Howard, William Reilly, woomera village

Former AGM factory | 1940 | NSW

April 15, 2017 by DA

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Posted in: Industrial (IND), NSW Register, Register Australia Tagged: industry, Stephenson & Turner, Sydney

Sanitarium Health Foods Factory | 1936-39 | VIC

April 29, 2014 by DA

Posted in: Industrial (IND), Register Australia, Victoria Register Tagged: 1930s, Edward Fielder Billson, industry, VicHeritage, Victoria

APM Boiler House | 1954 | VIC

April 29, 2014 by DA

Posted in: Industrial (IND), Register Australia, Victoria Register Tagged: 1950s, Mackay & Potter, Mussen, Victoria

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