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Key Details
- About The Project
Heritage design advice and participation with the consultancy team and clients (EG) in the development of a conservation management plan in relation to the transition of the industrial site from 1960s factory into current warehouse facilities plus offices and café ensuring that all significant components of the original building were retained and conserved.
- Summary
In the 1960s Roche constructed an industrial complex for the manufacturing and distribution of medicinal drugs throughout Australia at its Cromer site in the Northern Beaches. Typically, factories and industrial plans at the time incorporated prominent landscape settings. The landscape setting was identified by Heritage 21 as being of the key heritage elements of the site along with the hexagonal tower bearing the chemical compound of the Valium tablet.
- What was done
Heritage 21 worked closely with EG developers and SGA architectsto convert the industrial warehouse and office buildings into 10 separate industrial warehouse suites. Heritage 21 ensured that all the key elements of the Roche Factory were preserved. These included the landscape setting, the hexagonal Roche emblem tower, and the original front offices of the 1960s complex. Heritage 21 worked with the EG team throughout the design development, documentation, and lodgement phase of the project to procure approval from the Northern Beaches Council.
- Time frame
3 years from inception to DA approval
Services provided
- Heritage significance assessment
- Conservation Management Plan
- Statement of Heritage Impact
- Liaison with all stake holders including architect, town planner, client, Council, Local Planning Panel, and parallel sub-consultants
Why was the work undertaken?
The Roche factory had become redundant and left unused for a period of 10 years prior to EG’s acquisition of the site with enormous development potential on 7.46 ha large block of land.
Who was the work completed for?
The work was completed for Sydney-based property funds management company EG.
Outcome
Reactivation of a recently dormant site through the implementation of industrial/ warehouse uses close to the Dee Why town center. Heritage 21’s involvement in the project was to identify the elements o heritage significance and ensure that these elements were retained and conserved. Heritage worked closely with the architects to integrate the new design around the elements of high heritage significance.
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