Theater
Brisbane Powerhouse
Former riverside power station turned arts venue, its derelict-era graffiti preserved inside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm, Brisbane, turns to the twenty-three years between nineteen seventy-one and nineteen eighty-nine, when this coal-fired power station on the Brisbane River sat decommissioned and empty. It follows who moved into the abandoned turbine hall during that gap: squatters, street kids, soldiers on training exercises, even a government chemical store, and what they left on its brick walls. Stand in the old boiler house and look for traces of those years before the building became a stage.
This audio guide was created using AI.