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    Barwon Water

    Jul 02, 2018 3 minutes
    Review by Jennifer Calzini

    Standing on the rooftop of Barwon Water’s headquarters in the Victorian regional city of Geelong, by GHDWoodhead, you can see more than 180 degrees over the bay and city surrounds. Avalon Airport is twenty minutes away and will soon take international flights that will pass overhead. As Barwon Water workers gather for a barbecue in the rainwater-irrigated roof garden and terrace, they can easily contemplate the changing city around them in a space symbolic of the urban renewal of the city’s cultural and civic precinct.

    Barwon Water is Victoria’s largest regional urban water corporation,

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