Fukinoto piano with an overhead gantry crane

with an overhead gantry crane running through the full length of the structure during operations

Rusting steel beams and concrete uprights form the gantry at Box Hill Brickworks

Dead Sheep at Blayney

The campus closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2018

Built in 1939 by contractor D

Fukinoto piano with an overhead gantry craneFukinoto, the butterbur sprout, pushes through bitumen and concrete across Yubari every spring, indifferent to what is built above it. In Hokkaido culture it marks the end of winter, the first green thing after snowmelt. Here it surfaces beside a quiet street, snow still covering the ground. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.