urban decay

Below are a  couple of photos from haphazardly  wandering  around Adelaide's CBD in late 2024. I was driving through the city  looking for bits of material for the walking Adelaide project.  

The photo below  is the back of an old empty 19th century building in Franklin St which  had been functioning as a car park, for some time.  There were no cars in the parking lot out the back and the  building  looked as if it was due to be demolished.

I didn't do a large format  version. I should have.

Will more  high rise apartments will replace these ruins?   Currently, there is very little in the way of new office building being constructed  in the CBD though there are exceptions, such as  here.iHowever, it's still  all apartment, and it has been that way since Covid. There is a lot of apartment building  happening. 

urbanscapes

I took advantage of a recent dental appointment in Adelaide's  CBD   to walk the city  and to try and make some photographic  urbanscapes. I started out from my base in the Adelaide Central Market where I'd  had my  morning coffee and went nto the Pitt Street carpark to check out Franklin St:   

I thought that I'd  return to some of my  old locations in the various  car parks  that I'd visited and explored when  I  lived in the city prior to 2015 and this was a good a way as any to gain a quick perspective on  how the CBD had changed, if at all, between 2015 and 2022.