this is the thread for urban decline, in all its forms
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
abandoned stella artois brewery
http://www.opacity.us/images/db/138/0000005008.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.buffaloexploration.com/
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
from ^^
http://www.buffaloexploration.com/mm/01.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
sanitarium joseph lemaire
http://www.opacity.us/images/db/137/133/0000005036.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
nice thread, j.
― lxy, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
the stat in the subject line is still making me go all 'whaaaaa???'
― jergins, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cognections.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/image061.jpg
― lxy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Palast der Republik: It served primarily as the seat of the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, but it also housed two large auditoriums, art galleries, restaurants and a bowling alley. Demolished in 2006.
― lxy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Detroit Arcadia:Exploring the post-American landscape
― jergins, Friday, 3 August 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
The World Without Us
― lxy, Thursday, 20 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Abandoned hospital webcam
― jergins, Saturday, 29 September 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.azw.at/event.php?event_id=802
Vienna's excellent Architekturzentrum will be hosting a new photography show, opening this Wednesday, April 24, called Sinai Hotels. With images by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz+Zoche, the show looks at "the concrete skeletons of five-star hotel complexes" abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/2424046564_98b11c8a9a_o.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2358/2424046482_2077c661d7_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2412/2424046340_0d1d3c19fc_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2424046424_2b9edd1016_o.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2424046446_8be3ce2924_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/2424046392_9953cd451d_o.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Disused stations of the London Underground: http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php
― jergins, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.lostamerica.com/wheels/ssbtrailer.6.jpg
FLOODED TRAILER 1992 Salton Sea Beach, CA. Flooded and abandoned in the late 1970s. Over 100F, the smell was overwhelming. Tripod was sinking in the mud. Night, full moon, 5+ minutes, 160T film. Green and red-gelled strobe and red-gelled flashlight. This was cleaned up in the early 2000s.
― jergins, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://artdel.ru/galleries/urban07/vtzvdsk01.jpg
― jergins, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
GARY IN post office http://www.hoursofdarkness.com/Post_Office/images/6702.jpg
― jergins, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.m-u-d.ca/exhibit/Mont-Sinai/s/Sanitarium27.jpg
― jergins, Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.m-u-d.ca/exhibit/Mont-Sinai/s/Sanitarium21.jpg
― jergins, Saturday, 10 May 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://weburbanist.com/2008/05/18/30-awesome-websites-for-adverturous-urban-explorers-urbex-forums-photos-and-more/
― jergins, Monday, 19 May 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
San-Zhr Pod Village http://www.filemagazine.com/galleries/archives/images/taiwan.jpg yet another worthwhile slideshow http://www.filemagazine.org/projects/taiwan/
― jergins, Saturday, 24 May 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
movie theater drive-in signs
― jergins, Thursday, 12 June 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
former offices, Guess Papers International
― jergins, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
lol also wow
― lxy, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
...the South China Mall, which opened with great fanfare in 2005, is not just the world’s largest. With fewer than a dozen stores scattered through a space designed to house 1,500, it is also the world’s emptiest – a dusty, decrepit complex of buildings marked by peeling paint, dead light bulbs, and dismembered mannequins.
― jergins, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
What sets the South China Mall apart from the rest, besides its mind-numbing size, is that it never went into decline. The tenants didn’t jump ship; they never even came on board. The mall entered the world pre-ruined, as if its developers had deliberately created an attraction for people with a taste for abandonment and decay.
― jergins, Monday, 16 June 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess we can't go there this time, huh? but i really want to go there.
― lxy, Monday, 16 June 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
hey guess what another slide show forgotten empty swimming pools
― jergins, Monday, 16 June 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
lost america's photo stream too many greats pictures
― jergins, Monday, 16 June 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
"photo stream"=gay
― jergins, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 06:15 (fifteen years ago) link
myriad...brilliant and unsettling
― jergins, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
more abandoned swimming pools
― jergins, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The intenisty of the exposure dose of radiation at 10 km from site is not high. The dose received by us for a day is comparable to what would be received on one transatlantic flight. Greatest danger is risk of inhaling a hot particle, a slice of nuclear fuel from a reactor.
― jergins, Sunday, 20 July 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
there are a lot of great pictures in that link. here are two http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9175.jpg http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9154.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 20 July 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
buncha good stuff on http://illicitohio.illicitohio.com/ but i like mike tyson's abandoned mansion most
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Two pictures of Paghman Gardens, Afghanistan taken 40 years apart http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/paghmanagardensafghanistan.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
here's another from the chernobyl link above, b/c it's amazing
http://www.nuclearflower.com/pripyat/img_9170.jpg
― lxy, Thursday, 24 July 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
wow there are so many great ones
― lxy, Thursday, 24 July 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/images/Donald-Davis/IMG_8000.jpg
― amon, Thursday, 24 July 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
― amon, Thursday, 24 July 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. someone was telling me about that place recently. so much weird shit like: As of the 2000 census, there were 21 people, 10 households, and 7 families residing in the borough. As of March 2004, there were eighteen people residing in nine dwellings. It is expected that many former residents will return in 2016 to open a time capsule buried in 1966 next to the veterans' memorial. In 2002, the United States Postal Service revoked Centralia's ZIP code, 17927.
― jergins, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dehli's MG Road is also destruction. Once upon a time the road gleamed with shopping malls and furniture stores; but two years ago, the government decided that these were illegal constructions necessary to be sealed. “Sealing” in practice means halfhearted bulldozing — enough to discourage inhabitance while creating the impression that you travel to Gurgaon by way of Beirut.
― jergins, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/collapsed9.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/27/abandoned-buildings-property-and-other-places/ http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cane-hill-1.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
what is more terrifying than an abandoned insane asylum nothing
― lxy, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
western state is a creepy occupied place. northern state is a creepy unoccupied place.
― Lingbert, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
urban decay is one of my favourite things! when i was a kid there was this spooky building out in a semi-rural town that gave me nightmares: it was probably 10 stories high, but it had no floors - it was hollow - and it had this huge block-lettered sign at the top saying 'SPACE TO LET'. i didn't know what 'let' meant so i assumed there was an 'i' missing and it was actually SPACE TOIILET. i always got a weird feeling when we drove by. i don't even know if it's still there.
― smoove operator, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://patrickboland.com.au/project/index.html
― jergins, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 06:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://patrickboland.com.au/project/content/bin/images/large/Cockatoo_VI_277_78_79_80_81Enhancer_Edit.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
abandoned polaroid factory (soon to reopen) shot on polaroidhttp://www.wallpaper.com/newgallery/17050809/1
― jergins, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wow wow wow
http://www.kevinbauman.com/100abandonedhouses/
― jergins, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
^detroit btw
― jergins, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
nos. 39 & 40 oh my god
all of them oh my god
grand plan go to detroit
― lxy, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=55704&n_tit=Indians+Flee+Dubai+as+Dreams+Crash++-+Fall+out+of++Economic+Crisis
― jergins, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 08:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/modern-day-ghost-towns-of-abandoned-real-estate/
― jergins, Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lot of interesting stuff here
http://www.mechanised.org.uk/
this is a really wonderful story
http://www.mechanised.org.uk/caravan.htm
― jergins, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
another abandonded psychiatric hospital, this one in ontario
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/8385614_422fc706a7.jpg?v=0
more
(look at the terrifying one of the children's ward, second from right on bottom row)
― lxy, Sunday, 22 February 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
his brickworks set is good too
― lxy, Sunday, 22 February 2009 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
someone else's image of those brickworks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott-5x5/62634512/in/set-72157600080959672/
― lxy, Sunday, 22 February 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/wa/wa.html
― jergins, Saturday, 14 March 2009 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n2/htdocs/schools-out-forever-625.php?country=
― jergins, Saturday, 14 March 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
this
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n2/htdocs/schools-out-forever-625/12.jpg
― lxy, Monday, 16 March 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
stores that are no more
― jergins, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Cherry Knowle Hospital, formerly known as Sunderland Lunatic Asylum was completed in 1895. The site chosen consisted of sloping land outside the village of Ryhope, with views across to the North Sea. Abandoned since around 1998 the site has fell into a serious state of disrepair.
― jergins, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/3253357495_1de50a164f_o.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 6 April 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
steve jobs' house is falling apart
http://images.appleinsider.com/jobs-090429-11.jpg
― lxy, Monday, 18 May 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/16/nation/na-emptyapts16
― lxy, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.good.is/post/picture-show-no-lifeguard-on-duty/
― jergins, Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
v nice. did you click through to his site? there are some beauties there.
― lxy, Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh thx 4 tip
― jergins, Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i like a lot of his work. cool golf pics. i also like his website
― jergins, Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, simple. elegant.
― lxy, Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i really love the interiors w/ the peeling wallpaper.
i don't THINK we have any pics of grey gardens on here, and just cuz it's been overly publicized doesn't mean it's not worth a mention and a look
http://inspirationresource.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuesday_09.html
― lxy, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
LOVE the hollow hills article on bldgblog today
― lxy, Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8M1AOlRglSI/SiwSK-AuEyI/AAAAAAAAL3M/_GR5xpiBxsI/s400/leeplaza1.jpg.jpeg
― lxy, Friday, 12 June 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't know what grey gardens was except for a thing my co-workers talked on and on about but WOW that house
― jergins, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
lol they talked about it cuz it got turned into a musical, huh?
― lxy, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
tijiji
― jergins, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/id/2213696/
not brilliantly done, but a coupla good pix and a little bit of information. worth a look some time.
― lxy, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
chernobyl, abandoned amusement park
― lxy, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
there seem to be lots of abandoned amusement parks.
― lxy, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
artificial owl, a site dedicated to abandonment
― lxy, Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, one more: flickr set of spreepark, abandoned amusement park in berlin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/sets/72157605233495983/
― lxy, Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
click on the 2nd icon for yet more abandoned swimming pools
― lxy, Sunday, 19 July 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/tokyo-fantasy-images-of-the-apocalypse/
― jergins, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
love the shibuya progression
― lxy, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/maunsell-towers.html
― lxy, Sunday, 13 September 2009 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_heo-zgVA9Nw/Sxfq_op8E8I/AAAAAAAABYE/OumHuqKvHOk/s1600/05.jpg
― lxy, Saturday, 19 December 2009 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/the-burj-dubai-and-architectures-vacant-stare.html
― lxy, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.atimetoget.com/2010/04/it-didnt-use-to-be-like-this.html
― lxy, Friday, 9 April 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 that tennis court (and all of them, but that tennis court, man)
― Ö¬·¾¸Î (jergins), Friday, 9 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/36844288@N00/4695004115/
recently uncovered posters in unused section on notting hill gate underground station, circa 1959
― lxy, Sunday, 4 July 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
cool. seth's girlfriend got to go in an nyc passageway that hadn't been opened since the 70s. she said it was a time capsule (and then probably said a bunch of other stuff that didn't make sense)
― jergins, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famagusta#Since_1974
― jergins, Sunday, 11 July 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link