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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1985
SPACE TYPE: Hospital
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A deserted hospital in the Budapest suburb of Pestujhely. Built in 1985 and designed by Tamas Tomay and Levente Varga as the surgery division for the former Soviet Pestujhely Hospital, the buliding was used for barely eight years. In 1993 the equi [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This ghost town is located behind the Szentkirályszabadja airfield, on the grounds of a set of abandoned Soviet barracks and living quarters. This base included a kindergarten, an elementary school, a middle school, two restaurants, pubs, cinemas a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1927
SPACE TYPE: Power station
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Breathtaking art- déco control room of a now defunct thermal powerplant in Hungary. The oval glass roof was an easy bombing target during WW2, hence the construction of a small indoor concrete shelter for employees (the weird looking box house in th [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Abadoned soviet tropospheric radio transmitter sation. It used to be a top- secret Soviet communication station in the middle of the forest above Herend city. It was a two level deep, nuclear- attack safe bunker 11 meters below the surface. The [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This abadoned military base is located near Pécel city, Hungary. A short walking trip or a drive on a dirt road and you will see the top of the bunker. The place is free for visiting but you have to extremly careful inside the bunker, there is no [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1950
SPACE TYPE: Prison
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The labour camp was in use near the Csákány rock stone cave above the settlement between October 1950 and autumn 1953 by the State Defence Authority (ÁVH) established secretly by following the Russian model of gulags. The 1500 prisoners held fo [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Weiss Manfréd Acél- és Fémművek ("Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works"), or colloquially Csepel Művek ("Csepel Works") was one of the largest machine factories in Hungary, located on Csepel island outside Budapest. It played an integral [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
This is the former base of the 5th Soviet guards fighter regiment, the last jet left the base in 1990. It is mostly abandoned but some parts are protected by fence and armed guards because the Sármellék International Airport use the runaways an [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Public institution's headquarters
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
In the heart of Budapest lies this building, which is strongly connected with the totalitarian regimes of the Hungarian history. In 1940 it became one of the headquarters of the Volksbund, which represented the Nazi Third Reich in Hungary. After t [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1972
SPACE TYPE: Hotel/guest house/hostel
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Hotel Olimpia was designed in 1969 by Zoltán Farkasdy, the construction began in 1971 and it was totally finished in 1972. The complex is located in a special milieu, on the top of Normafa, in the Buda hills. Before its opening it was alre [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1972
SPACE TYPE: Hotel/guest house/hostel
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The holiday resort of the Hungarian Post was originally made for postmen, who could spend their holiday at the beautiful environment of the Római-part (Roman shore). It was built in 1972 and consisted in 5 floors, 55 rooms, two lunchrooms, an elevat [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1980
SPACE TYPE: Station/rail
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
At the beginning of the 1970s, there was a plan to make an underground station in Kőbánya (10th district of Budapest) at Liget square. During the 1980s they built the station and the underpass system with different kind of services, and many blocks [...]
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Szeged suffered heavily during the World War II. 6,000 inhabitants of the city were killed, the Jewish citizens were confined to ghettos, then taken to death camps, and the Soviet Army occupied the city in late-1944 [...]
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Le foto qui presentate “Budapest Landscape#1 e Budapest Landscape#7” mostrano lo stato di triste abbandono in cui versano molti edifici destinate al proletariato deplorevolmente in degrado. Il motivo della scelta di questi soggetti deriva dall [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
Csepel Works is a former industrial district in Budapest, Hungary. This place was an important location during the age of Communism, but today it is used by the periphery of society as a meeting point. Link budapestgolocal ppmhungary [...]
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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 abandoned Great Market Hall (Nagyvásártelep), Budapest, Hungary. --- Centro di distribuzione frutta e verdura di Budapest. Una volta completato è diventando il più grande impianto al coperto del paese. Fu costruito per rispondere alle esige [...]
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It is a huge, beautiful abandoned factory overflowing with decommissioned trains, from old steam engines to modern rail cars. Trains can be symbolic of progress, strength and prestige. Seeing these steal beasts, many of which hailing from times of to [...]
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This kaolin factory is in Hungary in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén-county, near the wine area of Tokaj. In the mountains of Tokaj, there are many zeolit and kaolin occurence place. This factory started in 1979 and Ended in midle of 1990-2000. This factory i [...]
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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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The building is located in the northern side of Budapest, capital of Hungary. There was no electricity, so I had to use my own battery‐operated flashgun. I used only one flash, so every light is on a different photo. I made three exposures of a [...]
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It was built in 1959, and used until the 1970's. Also called the Red Star Train Graveyard, Istvantelek is located in Budapest, Hungary. The trains are housed in buildings just off the active railway. The buildings are falling apart as are the trai [...]
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