Turbine Hall A Station Windows

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight pierces the tall, dust-streaked windows of Turbine Hall A, Wangi Power Station. The light illuminates the cavernous, abandoned industrial space, revealing the slow decay within this former powerhouse.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Turbine Hall A Station Windows
Series: Wangi Power Station
Catalogue: WPS-044
Process: Giclée
Captured: 27 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/10 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The windows along the turbine hall at Wangi Power Station's A Station bay run the full height of the wall, set into the steel structural frame in tall rectangular bays. Each window is divided into horizontal panes by mullions, the glazing original to the 1957 to 1958 build. Some of the panes are intact; others are broken or missing. The frames are steel, painted in a pale industrial green, the paintwork worn and rusted at the seams. Daylight falls through the window line in flat sheets across the empty turbine hall floor. The view out is across the switch yard toward Lake Macquarie beyond.

The window arrangement at Wangi Power Station was treated as part of the building's architectural intent, not just a means of admitting light. The long industrial facade carries a consistent rhythm of glazed bays along its 228-metre length. Colin Smith of C.H. Smith & Johnson was Elcom's project architect, the architect of record who took the station through. The NSW State Heritage Register listing specifically calls this out: Wangi is a rare example in Australia of a power station where architectural appearance and landscape setting were treated as integral to the design. The A Station windows are part of what makes that listing accurate. They have been in place since 1958.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Tall steel-framed windows run the length of Turbine Hall A, their panes shattered or missing. Concrete pillars divide each bay, surfaces stained dark with moisture and age. Graffiti covers the remaining glass. Rail tracks are set into the brick floor, leading deeper into the hall. Through the broken frames, eucalyptus canopy presses close. Discarded tyres and timber lean against the sills. Flat grey light fills the space.

Brett Patman

The series

Wangi Power Station

51 photographs

About a thousand men built Wangi Power Station, on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. They were Hunter Valley locals and post-war Italian migrants, many living in a tent city on the lakeshore through the build. By 1957 they'd put up the main building, 228 metres long and eleven storeys high in triple-brick over a riveted steel frame, with three 76-metre concrete chimneys behind it.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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