Lime green walls meet tiled surfaces at a ground level staircase inside the ATL Building. A metal handrail rises past a single white light switch, still fixed to the wall beside a partially demolished doorway.

01 ATL BuildingMeadowbank2015

ISO 1006sf/8.024mm

Series · 14 prints

ATL Building

Photographed 2015
Frames 14
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Demolished c. 2016
Architect Julius, Poole & Gibson
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

The ATL Building was the Meadowbank factory of Automatic Totalisers Limited, the company that built the mechanical and electromechanical totaliser machines for racecourse betting, ticket printing, and department-store sales recording. Designed in 1947 by Julius Poole and Gibson for Sir George Julius, the engineer who patented the automatic totaliser, it ran as two Art Deco buildings on the same site, one for the factory, warehouse, and offices, the other for the dressing rooms, showers, and canteen. The toolroom was said to be the largest and best equipped in the southern hemisphere. A second toolroom was added in 1975. As totaliser technology gave way to computers, the factory ceased production and the buildings were repurposed as a gym, church, office space, and dance school before being demolished in 2016 for apartment redevelopment.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed and numbered, printed from the original RAW file. Open editions in the two smallest sizes; limited editions of 100, 50 and 25 in the three larger, never reissued once they sell through.

Lime green walls meet tiled surfaces at a ground level staircase inside the ATL Building. A metal handrail rises past a single white light switch, still fixed to the wall beside a partially demolished doorway.
Amenities Ground Level
Along one side of the washroom, 4 textured partition walls divide the toilet stalls at ATL Building. Opposite, 3 exposed sink basins have lost their taps and fittings, leaving brickwork bare behind the white tiles.
Showers
Debris and loose wiring cover the concrete floor of a ground-level corridor at ATL Building. Blue paint lifts and scuffs across walls that show the wear of decades of use.
Downstairs Office
A small utility room in the production engineering department at ATL Building. Exposed plumbing runs to a grimy ceramic sink on the left wall, beside a teal-painted door hanging open on a broken wired-glass pane.
PE Department
Pooled water on the concrete floor mirrors the collapsed ceiling grid above, seen through a jagged tear in a plasterboard wall at ATL Building.
Toolroom Length
Peeling paint and angled sunlight in a derelict office hallway at the ATL Building, Meadowbank.
Office Hallway
White and brown ceramic tiles line the corridor walls at the entrance to the shower block, their surfaces streaked with grime. A red fire hose reel hangs on the right wall and exposed wiring trails from the ceiling.
Showers Entrance
Rear Tool Room at ATL Building, this area was the tool rooms expansion which was built while the factory was still.
Rear Tool Room
End of Office Block at ATL Building, the end of the length of the ground floor office block.
End of Office Block
Raking light from vertical blinds on the right wall cuts hard stripes across the floor at ATL Building. Raised floor panels have been removed or pushed askew across almost the entire room.
Server Room
Broken plasterboard has mounded on the right side of this stripped dressing room at ATL Building. Above, 2 rectangular fluorescent light frames hang loose from exposed wooden joists.
Dressing Room
A ground level room in the ATL Building factory and offices at 37 Nancarrow Avenue. Shredded material has mounded across the floor beside an overturned plastic container.
Canteen
Switching Room at ATL Building, a green steel door stands open between two electrical switchboard cabinets.
Switching Room
Office at ATL Building, a suspended ceiling sags where panels have collapsed, letting sharp beams of daylight cut.
Office
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

Print tiers →

Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

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