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Bernard Feilden, 1956

Een tot woongebouw verbouwde kerk, ik vind 'm erg mooi geworden. Voorburg, langs de Vliet.

Leeds

While exploring this abandoned vacation center, I was struck by this lone chair perched on the edge of a concrete balcony. It seemed to be waiting for a guest who would never return.
I chose to shoot this in black and white to emphasize the stark contrast between the rough concrete texture and the dark void surrounding it. The minimalist composition with just these few elements tells a more powerful story than a wider shot showing more decay would have.
The curved concrete ledge creates this natural line that leads to the chair, which becomes an unexpected focal point - a human element in this otherwise cold, brutalist structure. I found something both eerie and poetic about this simple piece of furniture that once served holidaymakers, now sitting in isolation against the emptiness.
What fascinates me about photographing abandoned places is capturing these quiet moments where everyday objects take on new meaning when their context changes. This chair isn't just furniture anymore - it's become a monument to absence and the passage of time.

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Julian Maria Larrea, 1968

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Francisco Javier Ortega Uribe-Echebarría, 1968

Jose Enrique Casanueva Munoz & Jaime Torres Martinez, 1976

Juan Cruz Saralegi, 1972

Juan Cruz Saralegi, 1972

Juan Cruz Saralegi, 1972

The Australian Natives Association building was designed by Marsh & Michaelson and completed in 1937. The Australian Natives Association was a mutual society from the 19th century that provided insurance, sickness benefits etc for its members. The building has some good internal features which sadly I didn't try and look at because I didn't know they existed.

The Australian Natives Association building was designed by Marsh & Michaelson and completed in 1937. The Australian Natives Association was a mutual society from the 19th century that provided insurance, sickness benefits etc for its members. The building has some good internal features which sadly I didn't try and look at because I didn't know they existed.

The Manchester Unity Building was built in 1932 by Walter Cooper Pty Ltd. It was designed by the architect Marcus R Barlow to meet the corporate needs of the Manchester Unity Group, a friendly society with 28,000 members in 1932. The twelve-storey building, located prominently on the corner of Collins Street and Swanston Street, has a concrete encased steel structure and is clad with moulded terra cotta faience. The overall effect is one of a modern commercial Gothic style. The structure is crowned with a corner tower of soaring, diminishing buttresses in a style presumed to be inspired by the Chicago Tribune Building.
The Manchester Unity building was the first in Victoria to have escalators. These provided access to the basement and the first floor directly from the main arcade entrance at Swanston Street. It was also one of the first Victorian buildings with automatic cooling, and rubbish and postal chutes on every floor. The exterior facade is clad in biscuit coloured terra cotta faience. The faience is intricately moulded to produce continuous narrow columns and shafts rising up the facade, serving to emphasise the verticality of the building. Internally there is extensive use of various Australian marbles as cladding to the walls. The ground floor lobby ceiling and cornices have high-relief depictions of Aboriginals, Australian flora and fauna as well as transport, building and primary industries. Cornice plaster panels in the corridors of all the floors carry depictions of the friendly society's role in welfare provision.

Victorian Heritage Register