The Newcastle Herald picked up images from the Lost Collective Wangi Power Station gallery.
Wangi is one of the most extraordinary buildings I have been able to photograph. The scale, the lakeside setting, the intact turbine hall. There is nothing else like it in NSW.
The Newcastle Herald piece centred on Ian McDonald's long-running redevelopment vision for the site, a $300 million plan that did not proceed before his death.
"I'm optimistic, a lot of others wouldn't be. We're pretty flexible as to what we can do. Sooner or later we would have to get finance, but that part hasn't worried me at this point. It's the only thing I want to do before I go."
The earlier Newcastle Herald piece on McDonald's plan gives a fair sense of how invested he was in keeping the building standing.
For decades, the station has been an open secret in the urban-exploration community, as well as a target for graffiti, vandalism, and scrap-metal theft. The building is still standing. What happens next is up to the family that owns it.
If you want more on the building itself, see Inside Wangi Power Station.
"Lake Macquarie City Council approved a rezoning plan in 2009 to reuse the 12,000 square metre building's 11 storeys for shops, a restaurant, apartments, offices, conferences, a cinema and health club. The family that owns the old Wangi power station say the site has great potential, but the market may not be ready to redevelop it. A $300-million plan to transform the power station into 11 storeys of shops, apartments, a cinema and restaurant were shelved last year when the man who developed the plan, Ian McDonald, passed away."
Read the Newcastle Herald piece at newcastleherald.com.au.
