Switching Room
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A 415V main switch panel stands open against a stained wall. Conduit, cable and debris cover the concrete floor. Double steel doors open onto a second room beyond. Graffiti marks the paintwork.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Switching Room
- Series
- ATL Building
- Catalogue
- ABU-013
- 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
- 24 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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A green steel door stands open between two electrical switchboard cabinets. The cabinet on the right still carries its warning label: Main Switch, 415V, Danger High Voltage. Circuit breakers sit in rows, some missing, some hanging loose. The floor is thick with grit, fallen conduit, and a paint tin left upright near the centre of the room. Wired glass panels above the doorframe let in a flat, grey light. The air looks heavy with dust.
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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