Boiler House Flues Colour:White A Nike Air trainer lies

A Nike Air trainer lies on the floor of a building within the Ogurawa settlement at Nichitsu

one of the original structures of the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's plant

its surface worn and marked by years of student projects

Kinugawa River at Nikko

its metal surfaces marked by decades of decay

Boiler House Flues Colour:White A Nike Air trainer liesCorroded steel and crumbling concrete: the boiler house flues at Portland Cement Works rise against open sky, stripped back to their structural bones. Part of a works that produced cement continuously from 1902 until November 1991, these flues once served a plant that at its peak supplied roughly 40% of all Portland cement manufactured in Australia. Part of the Portland Cement Works series.