The Bushells Building is a unique survival of a 1924 tea warehouse conserved and adapted for a seven-story high quality commercial office tenancy. This tea processing centre contained a tea-tasting room and a complement of industrial relics including a tea chest elevator, dumb waiters, goods lifts and spiral chutes moving tea from one level to another. The design of the new office areas embraced these manufacturing elements and a new foyer was created in one of the light wells. Three new lifts and a series of fully glazed interconnecting bridges now move office tenants rather than tea.
Photography: Terrance Chin + Tom Ferguson
