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A manufacturing plant complex built in the International Modern style, consisting of rectangular
blocks with flat steel deck roofs, salmon and red brick, steel framed windows and cement sheet
cladding. There are entire curtain walls of concrete breeze blocks. There are lighting standards
with conical luminaries with dish caps. Signage is supported on a rolled hollow section steel
frame. The buildings are set within lawns with native planting at the entrance, a rock garden,
pool, and possible sculpture remnant.
The factory is centred on a 250-metre long main processing building flanked by various
storage and administration buildings. The whole complex demonstrates a unity of design in its
use of a low brick wall surmounted by corrugated cement sheeting or steel framed glazing.
Most south facing walls are completely glazed from the brick dado to the roof, while the north
facing walls and some south facing ones have a single strip of glazing along the top of the wall.
The brick dado is evidently designed to prevent damage to the fragile cement sheeting and so
is used only at the lower level. However, as a stylistic feature, this has also been employed in
the administrative buildings.
The production line is expressed by the long low main production building, with the tall milling
and mixing structure at the eastern end, where raw materials are prepared for processing, a
small tower housing the steam accumulator a short distance along, and the large storage and
dispatch buildings extending across the western end.
The administration block lies between the production building and Rowsley Station Road, with
a gatehouse and openwork, concrete block wing walls identifying the main entrance.
The brown coal and wood waste fired boiler is a prominent feature at the eastern end of the
site. This fully glazed wall to the north and south broken by strips of louvred venting and with a
probably accidental random checker pattern created by different coloured glass panes. The
steel chimney stands just south of the boiler house.
The elements that contribute to the significance of the site are those features constructed as
part of the original design (as shown in the representative design perspective from 1960) as
follows:
Gatehouse & Administration Block
Amenities Block
Boiler House
Bicycle Shed and Factory sign
Chipper House
Main Factory Building
Warehouse
Workshop and Store
Factory Supervision
The setting of the place including the boundary trees and rock garden at the front of the site
also contribute to its significance.
Comparative Analysis:
The style of the complex is derived from the Bauhaus influenced industrial or institutional
complexes generally in the United States, such as, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
Illinois (Mies van der Rohe 1939-1956) and General Motors Technical Institute, Warren,
Michigan (Eliel and Eero Saarinen 1946-55). Local comparisons include factories, such as,
ETA Foods, Ballarat Road, Braybrook (Frederick Romberg 1957-60), Australian Paper Mills,
Fairfield, General Motors, Dandenong and various oil refinery complexes. The survival of boiler
houses in factory complexes is rare, as are glazed curtain walls from this period.
Significance:
What is significant?
The CSR Mill designed by T. H. McConnell, which opened in 1960, located at 25 Rowsley
Station Road, Maddingley. The following elements contribute to the significance of the place:
• Gatehouse & Administration Block;
• Amenities Block;
• Boiler House;
• Bicycle Shed and Factory sign;
• Chipper House;
• Main Factory Building;
• Warehouse;
• Workshop and Store;
• Factory Supervision; and
• The setting of the place, including the boundary trees and rock garden at the front of the
site.
How is it significant?
The former CSR Mill, 25 Rowsley Station Road, Maddingley is of local historical and aesthetic
significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The former CSR Mill, 25 Rowsley Station Road, Maddingley is of historical significance as the
embodiment of an industrial process and capital investment in a semi rural location. The
factory officially opened in 1961 by State Premier at the time Mr H. E. Bolte demonstrates the
decentralisation policies of the Liberal Government during the 1950s and 60s. The complex is
of historical significance for its associations with the development of employment and industry
in the former Bacchus Marsh Shire, which demonstrates the utilisation of valuable resources in
the area.
On the night of my birthday she took me to The Cheesecake Factory in Albany --- here is a shot of the building. Outside, at night, in the rain, with a point-and-shoot camera through a car window... turned out better than I expected it to, which isn't saying much!
Officially a manufacturer of electrical components mainly for use in tape recorder.
It was rumored that, it was the site of arms development and testing.
After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, it became a test center for radiation monitoring and decontamination.
It was abandoned ten years later, in 1996.
Picture: Road Sign leading to the factory.
Many of us know the story of how Marty McFly (Played by Michael J. Fox) ends up traveling to the (at the time) future – October 21, 2015. For those who do not know this story, I will ask just one thing: Why? Well, if you’ve come here for a rundown on the movie, you will be sad and perhaps a bit frustrated to find that this will not answer your burning questions, so you might as well watch this great film! This film, known as “Back to the Future” became one of the cult classic films of its time, pulling in over $300 million worldwide, and quickly becoming the highest-grossing film of 1985. Of course, when you make a film about time traveling in a modified DeLorean, this is bound to happen. The thing is, I could go on and on just talking about this amazing film – but that’s not why I’m writing this post. I’m writing this particular piece so we can dive back into a statement I had made in my first book, “Empty Spaces.” We will get to that in just a moment.
Back to the Future was released on July 3, 1985 making some very interesting predictions about our future – a future we have now officially made it to – however, things did not end up as hoped for. Marty McFly - through a big cluster of nonsense – ends up meeting an eccentric scientist by the name of Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd.) The two end up meeting at a shopping mall; another occurrence largely unheard of in today’s society. To shorten this long and complicated list of events, I will say that Marty must find a way to return to 1985, after having returned to 1955 and becoming his own mother’s romantic interest. On a third venture through time, once this has all been settled for the better, and the timeline has been…somewhat fixed, Marty and Doc Brown travel to today’s date – October 21, 2015.
As I had stated earlier, this film had made a plethora of predictions about our “future,” and now that we are living that aforementioned future, we see that fantasy has not fully become reality. Our vision of the future was a bright one, where technology only helped, without damaging our society. Things were supposed to be great and we were supposed to have self-lacing tennis shoes! Sadly, we are greeted with a grey, cracking skyline and empty, dusty spaces – so much of our history being forgotten. In this future, we don’t have self-drying jackets and smooth riding hover boards. We don’t have regularly moving traffic with the zooming speed of hover cars. We do however have people arguing over who traveled back in time and changed how the “Berenstein Bears” was originally spelled; I believe it to be with an “E” and I won’t change. Computers in our pockets, more roads and more buildings…we have also become more wasteful of technology, a bit consumed by it all and furthermore, wasteful of our society.
An Alternate Perception:
Images of blighted, broken industry, through the decay and destruction of nearly post-apocalyptic scenes have become a much greater intriguing subject for the people of our world in current time, it seems. Flashback to the 1960s or even the 70s when life was a bit more carefree, lacking technology and the constant grinding chatter of an online social networking presence. The general outlook on our future world was a wondrous one, filled with smoothly operating hover cars, tall chrome and glass buildings, complete with an incredibly perfect networking community nearly free of depression, or half of the issues we are facing today.
Fast-forward 30+ years later, and here we are stuck in a madhouse.
The average outlook on our future world has become one of a gray, crumbling city skyline. Our industry has fallen, the community is very loosely knit, and we left behind many structures we once found wonderful. Prices are up, jobs are down, and sometimes it feels like you can’t do anything without having your life synced to a gmail account. Perhaps we must disconnect for just a day?
All of the technology we had dreamt of having in the 60s, 70s, and in today’s case the 80s has come partly to creation in reality, but at the same time it has broken us down as a community, causing just as many problems as it has created innovations. With new technology constantly building, many of these places around us are being forgotten, tossed aside as trash and left to rot under the elements. Fields of trees and open areas full of nothing but nature are being dug up, torn up, torn down, ripped to dirt for brand new shops, car dealerships, etc. while the old ones are left behind.
Enjoy this day as they would have back then. If you’re in Ohio, the weather will be wonderful. We should all get out and have an adventure today! Let’s do something positive and bring some more positivity into this future. We have made it this far, so let’s not let it all fall apart so easily!
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this robot picks up a pair of flats at a time and drops them onto a conveyor belt that carries them into the rotating drum, which sorts out the incorrectly-sized beans. they then go up above where the person visually inspects them before they go on to have the "jelly belly" name printed on them
This abandoned workshop had existed in Anshan, Liaoning Province, Northeast China. The area used to be the most important heavy industry base of the country. Since late 1990s, a huge number of state-owned factories were going bankrupt one bye one due to global structural changes.
The photo was taken in February 2004 and the workshop was knocked down in 2005.
Factory Card Outlet (12,980 square feet)
12134 Jefferson Avenue, Yoder Plaza, Newport News, VA
This location opened on March 21st, 1998 (though the store itself was built in 1996). It became a Party City in 2011, which closed in March 2025.
Visiting the DMC factory in Mulhouse, France. DMC is one of the world's leading thread manufacturers.
All our threads are made in France since 1841.
Blogged: Blogged: elblogdedmc.blogspot.com/2011/09/visitando-la-fabrica-de-...
Photos by DMC Spain.
The structure and style of this factory building was inspired by one in Portland, Oregon. The colors and surroundings do not represent to prototype.
Located on the B4551 at Hunnington, Halesowen, West Midlands.
Blue Bird Toffee.
Harry Vincent set up as a confectioner near Birmingham in the West Midlands of England in the 1898. He had the ambition to build a factory which would not only be very beautiful but also a pleasant place to work.
Harry Vincent realised his ambition in 1927 when his factory was built.
Bluebird left the site in October 1998, and the company has now moved to Hull as part of 'Needlers'.
Coronet Cigarette Factory: is the 1st & last cigarette factory in KUWAIT. Own by Abullah Mulah Saleh & Dakran. Open in 1945 & closed on 1949.
In Picture: Sheikh Ahmad Aljaber checking machine , son Sheikh Jaber, with Abdullah Mulla Saleh.
مصنع كورنيت للسجائر
هو أول وآخر مصنع للسجائر في الكويت. يملك المصنع عبدالله ملا صالح ودكران
افتتح المصنع في 1945م واغلق في 1949م
في الصوره
الشيخ احمد الجابر يتفقد احدى المكائن مع عبدالله الملا صالح والشيخ جابر
Picture taken 7/19/23
Former Hallmark Gold Crown.
J.Crew Factory | 1307 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus, OH
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Grabbed this shot while driving past. I always think this factory looks so cool. It's awesome at night too.
When the war came to the Antarion IV, the factories became a significant target for heavy bombers of the enemy faction. As a result, each factory was upgraded to defend itself and ultimately the factories on Antarion IV became as heavily armed as the war machines they produced.
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This microscale vignette was created for the Eurobricks Micro Sci-Fi contest.