Meal Room Type:Framed light filtering through grimy windows

light filtering through grimy windows onto forgotten equipment

dust settled across the machine and work surface

leaving the building to sit untouched for years

The building was constructed in 1967 as a television set and never served any other purpose

Part of the O-I Glass series

Meal Room Type:Framed light filtering through grimy windowsDust coats the tables and chairs of the meal room inside the former Melbourne Glass Bottle Works at Spotswood, the factory left mid breath after glass manufacturing wound down. Built up through more than a century of continuous operation under four corporate identities, from Melbourne Glass Bottle Works through AGM, ACI, and finally O I Glass, the site once employed hundreds of workers around the clock. Part of the O I Glass series.