Friday, 9 December 2016, 10:17 am Article: Liana Pantaleo
61 Molesworth “Deconstruction”: Day 15
Photography by Liana Pantaleo
This morning I
walked by the site as usual; it was eerily quiet with very
few people around. I could see some workers on the site, but
not the usual crew that are around the barrier fences. The
building looks maybe about one third demolished at this
point.
I spoke to the one worker I could find who was near
enough to the barrier. He’s been with the project since
the beginning. The first thing I asked was why it was so
quiet, and he told me that pressure builds up in the pipes
and it needs to be released.
I was told that it took
about a week to set up and the crew has been working 7 per
week days since. Council said “deconstruction … will
start … Thursday 24 November” taking “between 10 days
to two weeks to complete” – so it’s day 15 from that
point and 11 days since I took my first photo after work
appeared to have just begun. I’m still a bit
unclear on this timeline.
They are looking at opening the street soon,
hopefully sometime next week. Of course, that’s assuming
everything moves forward as predicted.
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