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THE BUILDING

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THE BRIEF

THE BRIEF

The site contains a free-standing three storey mixed use warehouse. It is constructed of face brick (painted) with load bearing walls built up to its side boundaries. It is a simple and narrow rectangular built form, with main street frontage north facing to Myrtle Street and overlooking a park. It has features consistent with a subtle example of an early twentieth century Federation warehouse Its exterior features a strongly accentuated base and front entrance treatment to Myrtle Street, vertical piers with triangular pediments, dividing the façade into repetitive bays, roof parapet with horizontal string course detailing and timber double hung sash windows which are arched upwards. Its rear façade is void of any detailing or windows. The interior of the warehouse building is currently being used as an open plan office space across its three levels, centred around a ground floor lobby and central circulation space. The street Myrtle Street is a wide street characterised by buildings of a mixed character, including multi-storey modern residential flat buildings mixed with Federation commercial and industrial buildings and some Victorian terraces. The neighbouring building adjoining the subject site to the rear, located at 60 Pine Street, is one and two storey older style timber and brick building with metal roof that it is presently occupied by a childcare centre. Neighbouring buildings to the west, located at 45-55 Pine Street, consists of a row of Victorian terraces. Neighbouring buildings to the east are separated from the subject site by a pedestrian thoroughfare

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