400 King William Street is one of my favourite Adelaide buildings. Designed by South Australian architectural practice Cheesman Architects,  it is a great glass rectangular cube that changes dramatically as the sky changes, so it's always worth a look to see what is playing on the pure form of the building when you pass by. And it was a real pleasure to be commissioned late last year to photograph it inside and out.  The client was a German advertising agency working for the new owners, an investment fund management company.  

My contact at the agency told me that the photographs were for a brochure, and generously offered to send me a copy. It arrived yesterday -  206 bound A4 pages,  that's a book where I come from, I think something was lost in translation - and all but two of the photographs in it are mine. Now my German is far from flash, so please don't ask me what the book is about, but I do like the pictures!

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Love a double page spread, especially when it's my photograph...

_MG_8809-EditC This was chosen as the hero shot of the building. I had taken it a couple of years ago for myself, and it won the job for me, popping up in the German agency's Google search on '400 King William Street'.

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This shot from the roof ended up on the front cover.  Good view of the Federal Court building from this angle and in this light. 

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I was asked to photograph some beautifully designed interiors. 

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The brief I was given called for 'images showing reflections of clouds on the building'. Clouds are fairly difficult to wrangle, so it took a few visits to get them lined up in the right place at the right time.  The client liked this one. 

_IGP2759-Edit My favourite photograph of Victoria Square is also in the book, taken in early 2010 when I had access to the top of ANZ House to photograph a water tank installation.