The collection · DiffusionLab

A tower crane over a rising frame in the style of a bus station with a concrete canopy behind a brise soleil, the year the estate opened. Work 10208.

Two hundred years after the pour: a vent hood the size of a house beneath a walkway bridging two blocks, survey frame with the horizon level, photochemical print with a grey base. Work 10171.

A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.

The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.

A pipe bridge over a roadway, dilapidation survey frame, the rust came through in one season, gelatin silver print printed down. Work 9590.

An unfinished walkway bridging two concrete masses beneath a soffit marked by shuttering, the age of squared rock, the pour ran on through the night, low angle with the parapet against sky. Work 9529.

The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.

A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.

The Black Decade, a lich at a level crossing of matchwood gates, Fujicolor NPS 160, bitumen sunk into the shadows. Work 9233.

A car crossing a line under a chequered flag beside a folded label in a fine hand in mid-century, contact print of a pressed frond, Ektacolor print on gloss paper. Work 8987.

A laundry chute mouth in a service wall seen from the tower foot, well into the age of the private city, graphic dark mass against bright sky, large format transparency of a model. Work 8985.

A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare. Work 8941.

Metalcut print of a half scale jet bridge, the first year of the wireless, sharp to the far ridge. Work 8872.

A shadow of a rail across concrete along a band of ribbon windows, white space treated as a shape, wood type printed over a flat ink. Work 8613.

A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

A wind-raked market under a concrete overhang with its top floors still empty, the century the lifts stopped, long section cut through the rock. Work 8078.

Blueprint elevation of floor-length poker between matched bollards on a jetty in the Brutalist years. Work 7747.

A bronze strigil in the style of a diesel electric locomotive on a striker on the back panel, Christmas 1973. Work 7449.

A pylon of battered stone flanking a way over a culvert under a raised road, an age remembered by its kerbs. Work 7334.

Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album. Work 7163.

A block standing alone on open hardpan and a lift shaft with its doors removed at the edge of a deep road cut, the fourth construction decade, static frame with a symmetrical mass. Work 7076.

The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail. Work 6935.

A flyer overlapping a poster for a film throughout an underpass papered solid, the morning after a show, grainy monochrome at arm's length, cheap paper that would not last a week. Work 6839.

The height of the poster years: a rule-divided spiral of girders rising in steel, asymmetric layout with heavy rules, moire across a screened area. Work 6779.

A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame. Work 6722.

1951, an unlisted parking deck with a slotted parapet with shuttering lines across the face, travel sketch in a notebook. Work 6573.

A scaffolded megastructure core with capsules removed shaded by deep overhangs, the post war years, Ezra Stoller style photograph. Work 6556.

A multi storey car park facade on the Lido di Venezia, the year before demolition, black and white architectural study, tripod at eye level with no tilt. Work 6453.

A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century. Work 6377.