Hollow Room balustrade Rusting machinery and peeling paint

Rusting machinery and peeling paint line the loading dock of the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood

Peeling paint and cracked tiles mark the room's slow retreat

Structures like this were raised across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward by selectors and graziers working marginal pastoral land

the remote community in Saitama Prefecture that housed the families of Chichibu Mine workers at its peak

Structures like this were common across NSW wool properties from the mid-20th century

Hollow Room balustrade Rusting machinery and peeling paintA disused room in the novitiate building at Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds, its plaster peeling back from the walls in long strips beneath a high window. Light falls through the opening and crosses bare floor, illuminating the quiet collapse of a space once central to a working religious institution. The Little Company of Mary operated the Lewisham Hospital complex for nearly a century before vacating the site in 1986. Part of the Lewisham