ETA Factory
256 Ballarat Rd, Braybrook

This building was built for Nuts Foods Pty Ltd in 1957

 

The building was designed by Frederick Romberg, a Swiss-trained architect who migrated to Australia in 1938.

 

The standout feature of the building was it's Miesian alternating black & clear glass curtain wall fronting Ballarat Road.

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The ETA Factory is listed on the Victorian's Heritage Registered Places.

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After the closer of ETA factory, the building has been used as a new & second hand car yard with attached servicing workshop. Unfortunately the building fell in disrepair and was vandalised and much of the original black & clear glass has been removed.

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When the ETA factory was closed down, the building became a new & second hand car dealership with an attached servicing workshop.

 

The building has subsequently been redeveloped into a mix business centre and as the building is listed on the Victorian's Heritage Registered Places, the new property developers were required to restore a remnant of the original building's glass curtain wall.

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1960        Ballarat Rd, Braybrook - Nuts Foods Pty Ltd - (Factory)  

 
1965 256 Ballarat Rd, Braybrook - ETA Foods Pty Ltd - Nut Products    

1970 256 Ballarat Rd, Braybrook - ETA Foods Pty Ltd - Nut Products  

 
1974 256 Ballarat Rd, Braybrook - ETA Foods Pty Ltd - Nut Products

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Photo: First published by RMIT Publishing, 2000; Photo from Kenneth Ross., Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

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