This project was three decades in the making. Since 1984, the Rockdale Council, (now Bayside Council), located the Rockdale library on the northern wing of the 1940’s Town Hall as a temporary measure, awaiting the construction of a new library building. Over the following 30 years, the grossly undersized temporary library underwent a series of minor refurbishments while various proposals for a new building fell through. In 2013, CK Design International in association with Leffler Simmes Architects and Stevenson & Turner International Architects (Heritage) were engaged to design a new library building and customer service centre connecting to the Town Hall on the south and the Administration building to the east.