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The building was originally a metal works shop, built in 1916. Today, it’s a wine storage facility in a trendy part of Portland.
A larger format photograph of an image in my recent, square, 'Forlorn Windows, Birmingham' series.
Also see flic.kr/p/2rKCGN7.
Photo taken in October 2025.
Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
The General Post Office is a colonial-era building situated on 141 King William Street on the north-west corner of King William Street and Victoria Square. It is the former General Post Office for South Australia. Postal services operated from the building between 6 May 1872 and 11 October 2019.
A 14-story hotel was built behind the historic structure, starting in 2021. It opened as the Adelaide Marriott Hotel in 2024.
History
General Post Office
The original building was constructed in the period 1867–1872, and was the most expensive building constructed to that time by the colonial government in South Australia. It was constructed from Glen Osmond and Glen Ewin stone, and ornamented with Bath limestone.
A competition was held in March 1866 for the design of the building, with the winning design submitted by Edmund Wright in collaboration with Edward Hamilton. They were at the time in practice with Edward John Woods, and Robert G. Thomas may have had a hand in the design.
Prince Alfred, The Duke of Edinburgh, was involved in laying the foundation stone, who also officially named the clock tower Victoria Tower on 1 November 1867. The capstone was put in place at a ceremony on 25 May 1870. The height of the tower was put at 154 feet (46.9 m), a little taller than the Albert Tower of the Town Hall on the other side of King William Street. The original plans had the tower somewhat taller, but R. G. Thomas was obliged to redesign it, as a cost-saving measure.
The building was extended in 1891-92.
There was also an office tower addition to the original post office in the 1920s.
Hotel
On 14 October 2019, Adelaide's GPO was relocated to the adjacent GPO Exchange tower at 10 Franklin Street. Plans were announced for the original building to have with a Westin hotel built atop it.
In April 2021, South Australian premier Steven Marshall attended a sod-turning ceremony, to mark the beginning of construction on the hotel. The hotel was estimated to cost A$200, with property developer Greaton handling the construction. Designed by local architects Baukultur, the tower, on the site of the 1920s addition, will retain the entire original GPO building, with some sections incorporated into the new hotel. Upgrades to the structure as well as additional seismic retrofit have been added, to ensure the structural integrity of both the old and new buildings. The topping out ceremony took place in October 2023, and included an Aboriginal smoking ceremony by traditional owner representatives Kuma Kaaru.
The 285-room, 14-story hotel opened as the Adelaide Marriott Hotel on 22 August 2024.
Wikipedia
Landscape view of The Columbia Center in downtown Seattle, the second tallest building on the west coast of the USA. I hope that you like this composition.
Architects: Chester L. Lindsey
A landscape version of distorted reflections of one mid-century building in the remaining darkened and blown glass panels of another on the brink of demolition.
These are Sentinel House (see flic.kr/p/2rjzqZz) and Charles House in Eccles, Greater Manchester.
Photo taken in July 2025.
Another photo of the Hexagon Tower, Manchester.
This building was completed in 1973 for ICI.
For 50 years this Brutalist building’s facade was of concrete. The facade was over-clad with insulated aluminium rainscreen in 2023/2024, retaining the hexagonal shape of the original structure’s windows.
The 14-storey tower was named after the hexagon shaped windows based on the chemical compound Benzene, which is widely used in the creation of synthetic dyes.
Original architect was Richard Seifert.
Photo taken in April 2025.
Detail shot of the Biosciences Building at the University of Birmingham, West Midlands.
Architects: Playne & Lacey
Erected: 1957-1961
Photo taken in September 2025.
This is a landscape version of Simple Abstract 302. (flic.kr/p/2rzxBzE)
Simple Abstract 25 re-visited, this time in larger landscape version. This is another black and white view looking up at the curvaceous balconies of the 'Riverwalk' apartments, overlooking the River Thames at Westminster, in London. Architects: Stanton Williams.
Detail from the 2016 annual Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London, by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels' firm 'BIG'.
This structure is a magnificent cathedral of glass fibre.
Photograph taken in July 2016
On those days / when I sense less of internal structure / I realize to focus more / on fixed structures in the surroundings
A section of the Walbrook Building roofline, photo taken from the inner courtyard behind Cannon Street in the City of London. Architect: Foster & Partners - Built 2010.
Another photo looking up at Lombard Wharf, a residential tower in south London. Architects: Patel Taylor.
Another image of the much photographed, greatly loved, but soon to be demolished, Welbeck Street Car Park in London. Closed August 2018.
Architect: Michael R Blampied & Partners - 1971
Update April 2019: This building is, sadly, currently in the process of being demolished.
A landscape version of the ‘Cheesegrater’, a car park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It was designed by architects Allies and Morrison.
In 2009 it won a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Regional Award. These awards are given to UK buildings for their regional architectural importance. In 2013 it gained third place in the 'World’s Coolest Car Park' awards.
Here is another photo of mine showing a building in London by the same architects: flic.kr/p/Ts4f8Y