Old vs New Size:XS needles resting mid-scale

needles resting mid-scale

producing around 100 bread varieties from a 65-foot oven before the building was abandoned and ultimately demolished

blades thick with accumulated dust

its steel-framed mass placing it among the defining structures of Australia's largest crude steel production plant

Old vs New Size:XS needles resting mid-scaleA timber frame building, its corrugated steel cladding rusted from decades of Hokkaido winters, stands directly alongside a newer utilitarian structure in a Yubari streetscape. The contrast is typical of a city that has been quietly rebuilding in places while much of its post war fabric continues to deteriorate. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.