Turbine Hall A Station Windows

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. Several panes are broken, some marked with graffiti tags. A splintered timber frame leans against the lower sill and a thick hose trails across the tiled floor towards the foreground. Dense eucalyptus and open grass press close to the glass outside, visible under a flat overcast sky through the fractured panes.

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.