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Posts tagged with heritage-conservation

1. The Reservoirs: A Best Practice Example of Adaptive Re-use

   01 Sep 2014

   For the last couple of weeks I volunteered as a tour guide at the Wickham Terrace water reservoirs in Brisbane, which have been open to the public for the first time in their history.  The reservoirs are located behind the much better known windmill and were built to house the…

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2. Are we destroying the heritage buildings of the future?

   24 Mar 2014

   After comments on my last post about the Bonded Stores, it seemed that to a lot of people in Brisbane, old age alone is reason enough to retain a building. So what about the modern buildings we are demolishing now? Will people in the future bemoan the destruction that took…

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