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Standard Steel

Location

18 Market Road, SUNSHINE VIC 3020 - Property No 110

File Number

1876

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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1876 - Brimbank City Council
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Site 110 - Standard Steel.jpg

Statement of Significance

Standard Steel is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative large steel -fabricating works expressing the maturation of Sunshine as a significant industrial and manufacturing centre in the post-war period. Standard Steel was a local pioneer in steel fabrication for many of the new wave of steel-framed building of both factory/warehouse and high-rise commercial functions. The surviving buildings are characteristic of the utilitarian style of the period with simple, International style, and the peculiar form of bow truss curved roofs, with suspended lantern are an unusual type reflecting the innovation of the company.

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