History vs Modern Needs
Did anyone have any interesting issues thrown up during their phase 2 relating to historical artifacts or heritage? We had a few items discovered on my Batemans Bay project.
A key part of sustainability is reducing the negative impact of our engineering on society. I remember Dave and Tom providing earlier blog posts discussing the reuse of building facades vs entire reconstruction. On Sunday I came across this gem so thought I’d share. Sorry for the double picture but I couldn’t get it all in one shot.
This is a historic building that used to be a lead pipe and shot factory that now sits inside one of Melbourne’s shopping centers that is built above Central Station. Clearly there was some kind of preservation order on the building so the new construction was built around the old to preserve it and transition to commercial use. I’m sure there were contamination issues to overcome but an interesting way of preserving the building for the future.
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I confess I thought 1932 a little modern to be worthy of historical status despite the manufacturing history of the shot tower, then I looked it up and find Coops shot tower is 1889 so a little more understandable and nice to know there is a museum attached.