Washroom Colour:Raw Holding Area at Ashio

Holding Area at Ashio

The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy

consolidating three predecessor schools into one reinforced-concrete three-storey structure

Once part of the working amenities of a site that has supplied water to northern Sydney since 1891

Washroom Colour:Raw Holding Area at AshioGrimy wall tiles and broken sinks beneath a dusty mirror, the washroom at Family School Fureai captures the final years of a building that outlasted its purpose twice over. The reinforced concrete school opened in Yubari in 1975 and closed eight years later as the coal economy emptied the city. Converted to group lodging by Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. in the mid 1990s, it was abandoned when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2007. Part of the