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The Life of a Building

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The Life of a Building

16 June 2024


A building is its own body, throbbing with life, yet not all buildings achieve sentience, a relationship, if you will, between inhabitants and structure.

Some buildings, even residential, are purely functional, sanitised to the point of anonymity. Others become receptacles for excess, a dump for the unwanted and forgotten. It is rare to find that middle ground, where form and function flow effortlessly with the quotidian, where each floor offers a new landing of possibilities.

The video poem came about quite organically, the result of walking up and down the building at all hours, observing, waiting and just soaking.