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The Casco Cold Storage Plant on Short Street in Waynesboro. The plant is one of the former industrial sites studied for adaptive reuse.
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Here at the RA we recently posted photographs of a cold storage warehouse in Chicago.
Well, those amazing photos were taken by Gary Robert (that’s not really his last name) an awesomely talented photographer.
He was nice enough to send us some more. Go see his other wildly wonderful images on Gary Robert Photography!
I’ve always been into toys, gadgets and figuring out how things work. As a child I came across my mother’s old 126 mm roll film camera in our crawlspace and asked my father to teach me how to use it… I guess that was the start of my photography career some 40+ years ago. The 126 mm film camera and flash bulbs soon turned into my father’s Maymia/Sekor 35 mm manual film camera and flash which I learned how to shoot slides, macro photography and use of a tripod. I remember shooting the inside of frogs for my 8 grade science project, it was better than having to cut the poor little guys up.
In some ways Colossal Art and Visual Ingenuity is our hero. It’s such a great site. Go see them and the rest of this article.
For nine decades Fulton Market Cold Storage Company operated in Chicago’s meatpacking district with a full ten stories of freezing storage situated close to major railways. Last summer the company decided it was time to start fresh in a state-of-the-art facility outside of Chicago, so the building was sold to SRAM, a bike component manufacturer who will use the space for its global headquarters. Architects Perkins + Will were hired to help convert the ice-encrusted space into a new, modernized office building and were also tasked with the most epic refrigerator defrost in history.
Photos by Gary Robert Photography