White Bay’s turbine hall [Australia].
There’s this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?
(Brett Patman, “Beauty in ruins: the wonder of abandoned buildings — a photo essay,” The Guardian, 5-11-19)
Kandos cement works [Australia].
Women’s wards at Callan Park [Australia].
The lounge of the Kinugawa Kan Hotel [Australia].
A former snack bar in Yubari [Australia].
Residential building, 1980s, Chkalovsk, Tajikistan. Photograph: Stefano Perego.
However, …
Residential building, 1980s, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Photograph: Stefano Perego.
… toxic, putrefying, oxidized, infested, cankerous, crumbling, melancholy, five-star has-beens…
Aul housing complex, 1986, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Architects: B. Voronin, L. Andreyeva, Y. Ratushny, V. Lepeshov, V. Vi. Photograph: Stefano Perego.
… are fertile ground for art and piety,…
Residential building, 1984, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. E. Yerzovsky. Photograph Roberto Conte.
… which spring from death anyway.
Residential building, 1980s. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Photograph: Stefano Perego.
(Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego, “When Soviets met Stans: the tower blocks of central Asia — in pictures,” The Guardian, 5-3-19.
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Some of the residential buildings are stunning
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I agree. For me the residential buildings have a brave, shabby, forlorn splendor and daring, or at least ambitious, design. I wanted to use more images, but was afraid of over-poaching from the two great photo essays.
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