Lost Foundry

1997

     At 622 Pembroke Street, Victoria, British Columbia a metal foundry was established in the 1880's: Albion Iron Works. Later, the name changed to The Victoria Foundries Ltd. They made a lot of civic furniture, manhole covers, lamp standards, and columns, and also cast-iron wood stoves. 

        A century later, after rescuing the facade during demolition, I brought it to my home and rebuilt it on scaffolding in a field. It acted as a creative exercise in restoration and thinking about the idea of transposition of a site.