Leisure
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1988
SPACE TYPE: Museum, Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Pyramida was constructed in Tirana, after the death of communist leader Enver Hoxha. It was originally built as a museum for Hoxha and designed in 1988 by his daughter Pranvera Hoxha, his son-in-law Klement Kolaneci, Pirro Vaso and Vladimir Bregu. Th [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1981
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The Chisinau Circus was constructed in 1981 by Ala Kirichenko and Simion Shoyhet in Moldova. The curent situation of the Chisinau Circus is uncertain. In 2008 the Chisinau Circus was leased out to a Cypriot company for a period of 29 years. The co [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1969
SPACE TYPE: Theme park
The entertainment park was opened in 1969 as Kulturpark Plänterwald, covering an area of 29.5 hectares. The area is situated in the north of the Plänterwald, next to the river Spree. From 2011 to 2014 (when the City of Berlin bought the Spreepar [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1966
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Reactivated
An Ullrich Müther creation with a roof supported only by a central concrete funnel which can be clearly seen in the photo. Built in 1966, the building has subsequently been restored and is now part of a new residential complex at the site (2015 [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1936
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
"Seebad Prora" was a Nazi- planned spa on the island Rügen, Germany. The massive building complex was built 1936- 1939 by the "Strength Through Joy" (Kraft durch Freude or KdF) association. The eight buildings were identical, and although they we [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1971
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Completely abandoned GDR leisure/culture complex built by the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). Almost beyond restoration. More information here: Templin Stadt - Parkanlage im Bürgergarten / FDGB Heim "Salvador Allende" (GERMAN) R [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1910
SPACE TYPE: Theatre, Cinema
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Built in 1910 as UFA- Cinema, it was after renewed in 1954-1955 and today is included in the list of monuments of Brandenburg. On the eve of May 1st, 1955 it officially reopened with the DEFA film "Sommerliebe" by Franz Barrenstein, a romanti [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1969
SPACE TYPE: Museum
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The Slovak National Gallery was founded in 1948 as the top state institution in the fields of art history, art collecting, scientific research, culture and education. The gallery in Bratislava consists of a complex of buildings. The central buildi [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
This monument located in the village of Topchiysko, Bulgaria, is a socialist monument to partisan fighters that died in the summer of 1944, while fighting for the communist regime which was soon to come to power. These were all people from the regi [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1957
SPACE TYPE: Theatre, Cinema, Discoteque
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
House of Culture (German: Kulturhaus) in Zinnowitz, relic of the former German Democratic Republic and example of Socialist Classicism. Houses of Culture were major club-houses in the USSR and the Eastern bloc. They provided room for all kinds of rec [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1953
SPACE TYPE: Theatre
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The summer theatre located in „Bazilescu” Parc is one of the socio-cultural constructions built in Bucharest on the occasion of the Youth festival in1953, representative for the socialist realism, expressing the power and greateness of the totali [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1952
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This is the Clubhouse Buna, "House of Friendship" of the VEB Chemical factory Buna. Primarly meant for the 20,000 workers of the site, it was also used by GDR television and theater ensembles. It was built in 1952/53 and was later famous as "X50". [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Cinema
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Now abandoned, Cinema Moscow was once a stunning neoclassical cinema and a popular Saint Petersburg destination. Built in the nineteen-thirties, it served as a space for Soviet cinema for over 50 years. Unfortunately, in the late 1990s, like many the [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Theatre
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
One of the biggest theatres in Bulgaria, abandoned since the fall of the Iron Curtain [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Propaganda place
L'edificio è stato costruito nel 1929 come Casa del Fascio, poi divenuta Casa del Popolo e balera. Nel 1958 l'intendenza di finanza l'ha donata alla Provincia di Forlì così è divenuta casa cantoniera prima e consorzio agrario poi. Nel 2010 a s [...]
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Education, Healthcare, Leisure, MilitarySoviet military base in Szentkirályszabadja
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SPACE TYPE: Cinema
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
SPACE TYPE: School
SPACE TYPE: Hospital
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
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The Meteor Cinema was the first builded cinema in Hungary. The golden age in the life of "Meteor” was the kommunism ages. The cinema was full of every day with childrens, parents and teenagers. That wasn’t just a cinema, but it was a centre of cu [...]
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The very meaning of a house of culture was never its role. It symbolizes some past rituals which were our grandparent's habit. Nowadays it seems these rituals have all gone, and only the skeleton remains. One can find these anywhere in the country, s [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Theatre, Cinema
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Seats in a theatre and cinema inside the National Park of Tirana, built in 1978. Today the place is abandoned. L'anfiteatro si trova all'interno del parco cittadino "Parku i Madh" della capitale Albanese. Totalmente in abbandono e costruito i [...]
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In 1938 a totally planned company town was built in Torre di Zuino, following the pressure from the autarkic policy of the fascism and thanks to the initiative of an industrialist, Franco Marinotti. The intention was to develop the production of ce [...]
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Hotel Fjord is the most visible structure that was conceived and built during the Yugoslav period in Kotor, Montenegro. The beautiful hotel remains abandoned and strewn with rubbish. the swimming pool is turned in a landfill with sever flippers [...]
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