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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #19 in series (WorkZone, accidental Abstractionist)

 

 

“Western Australia’s first carbon neutral commercial building” is also an occasional abstract artist!

These “artworks” have a shorter lifespan than any “street art” produced by Banksy, anonymous graffitists, et al.

They can be highly surprising, truly beautiful.

They are visible – indeed, there at all – only when the pedestrian passing by, the sun, the building’s aluminium tube shade screen, and the building-proper’s sun-facing exterior are all in “Goldilocks” alignment.

(photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 3.16 pm on 02 July 2022, from footpath on Nash Street, Perth, looking up at east-facing wall of WorkZone East building)

WorkZone is one site, two buildings, built in 2013, and upgraded further, since; in “environmental”  terms – most especially the effective and aesthetically pleasing way it reduces heat load whilst ensuring that those within are not denied natural light – WorkZone is a deal more “intelligent” than are most of Perth’s “office blocks” and “towers”.

To discover and see more, I suggest that you click here first, then this, and finally the latest such spruik.

Published in photographs Western Australia