Boland’s Mills: Bridging past and future as Google breathes new life into 150-year-old flour mill

There is often a fraught relationship between old and new. Not so with Google’s Boland’s Mills redevelopment, which blends the two together quite beautifully.

That tension turns to vibrant contrast in this high-tech hub, built within the skeleton of the iconic stone flour mills, which have a nearly two-century history.

The mill project is the first phase in the company’s vast Google-ification of the Boland’s Quay site, which will contain more than 20,000 square metres ...