Downstairs Office
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 27mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Within the abandoned ATL Building, a downstairs office lies in ruin. Papers and debris cover the floor, a forgotten chair sits askew. This workspace once pulsed with daily activity, now silent and slowly succumbing to time.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Downstairs Office
- Series
- ATL Building
- Catalogue
- ABU-003
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 16 October 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1.3s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 27 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Meadowbank, New South Wales, Australia
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Deep blue walls dominate the room. The colour is flat, institutional, still saturated despite years of neglect. A doorway opens onto a corridor where a second exit sign glows faintly green above another doorframe. Light spills through a far window, washing pale across stripped-back walls. Debris litters the carpet. Broken ceiling tiles, plaster fragments, a small chest freezer shoved against a partition. The door handle has been removed from the right-hand wall, leaving two exposed bolt holes.
Brett Patman
The series
ATL Building
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.
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