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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1935
SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Giovanni Battista Caproni largely contributed to the development of the Italian aeronautical engineering. In the early thirties' his projects became an example for the construction of the new national airstrike squadrons. Mussolini decided to locate [...]
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PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned, Under-used
This is a night journey through Albania along those places that once were symbols of an oppressive regime and today are instead the emblem of the hard time Albania is having in dealing with its own past. In Albania the communist past is largely [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Former canteen of the Kombinat Ingenieur, Tief und Verkehrsbau in Rostock. The building is unusual in that the roof is not supported by the external walls. Rather it is comprised of several concrete "funnels" which can be seen in the photo of the [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Mine
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A journey to an abandoned mine in one of the most in-hospitable places on earth. Deep inside the Arctic circle is Grumant Mine and Coles Bay. Operated as a mine by the Russians during the cold war, this place was of significant strategic importance a [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1910
SPACE TYPE: Mine
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Pyramiden is a Russian settlement and coal- mining community on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most [...]
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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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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1947
SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
VEB Combine Textima was a producer 0f machines for the textile industry, made up of many dispossessed enterprises. After 1990 it was called Textima AG and in 1996 it turned insolvent [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
In Pirna, on top of the Sonnenstein hill, residence the center of DDR aircraft industry. It was part of the VEB Combine Generating plant Engineering and Construction. After 1990 it was privatized and 5 years later declared insolvent. Text by Mark [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The aerial ropeway was, during the late 19th century until the Second World War, one of the most famous modes of transport of ressources especially for mining. The company Adolf Bleichert & Co. Leipzig- Gohlis controlled most of the ropew [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
These images were taken at the now abandoned, ruined and derelict "Kranostroene" crane-building factory in Aytos, Bulgaria. The factory had been operational since the 1970s and had manufactured cranes for local industry and for export abroad to Europ [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1900
SPACE TYPE: Altro
SPACE TYPE: Office
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Gosprom buildings were designed and erected for hosting governmental and industrial establishments with required programmatic elements for common usage of departments and employees in late 1920’s. Some physical characteristics such as 63m height (w [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
An abandoned leather factory that opened at the beginning of the Industrial revolution in Croatia, 1879. It was re-appropriated during World War II and again during the Communist regime. Later it was forced to close down, like so many other factor [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The main hall of a now ruined cement factory. It was established at the turn of the century and worked throughout the communist regime, finally to close in the early nineties [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Mine
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Le fotografie della miniera di carbone "Rumyantsevo", qui riportate, sono estratte da un lavoro più esteso che documenta la radicale trasformazione del paesaggio nella cittadina di Gorlivka. Su un terreno originariamente pianeggiante, i “Terrik [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Mine
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Il bacino minerario del Donbass, una vasta regione dell’Ucraina orientale fortemente urbanizzata e industrializzata, copriva nella prima parte del secolo scorso il 50-70% del fabbisogno di carbone dell’intera Unione Sovietica. Dopo la caduta d [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1971
SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A photo of one of the administration buildings of the abandoned oil refinery Plama Pleven located near the city of Pleven in Bulgaria. The refinery was open in 1971 as a state-owned enterprise. In 1996 the whole facility was privatized, but the n [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1900
SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
These buildings belonged to ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk), once the largest complex of factories in the country producing machinery. It was founded in 1871 from the merge of two smaller companies. During the German occupation of Czechoslova [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Red Triangle Factory complex is a huge industrial zone in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1860 by Hamburg merchant F. Krauskopf and his companions as the Russian-American Rubber Manufacture Association, since 1908 it was called "Tr [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This is the abandoned building of the former Factory for capacitors (transliterated "Zavod za kondenzatori") in the suburbs of the city of Kyustendil. Electronic industry in Bulgaria was one of the perspective economic branches in the 1970 and 198 [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Small village
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Copșa Mică is a town in Sibiu County, Romania, best known in the 1990s for its status of one of the most polluted cites in Europe. This was due to the emissions of two factories in the area: One, open from 1935 to 1993, produced carbon black for [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Founded by general Eremia Grigorescu in 1895, Chimopar (Dudești Chemical Enterprise) is one of the oldest Romanian chemical companies and used to be one of the main producers of gun powder and other special chemicals in Romania. Along the years [...]
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La ciminiera nella foto svetta, assieme ad altre, su quel che rimane dello stabilimento SNIA di Varedo. La fabbrica di Varedo viene realizzata nel 1924 per conto di una piccola società, la SA Seta Artificiale Varedo, fondata dal grosso gruppo i [...]
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Negli anni del fascismo e poi della ricostruzione, Bormioli fu un personaggio scomodo, uno dei pochi a svolgere un’azione di proposta e a incidere profondamente sul futuro della città. La vetreria Bormioli di Parma garantiva un posto sicuro e sala [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares's factory, situated 4 km out of Sofia's city limits at the time in what is today the Zaharna Fabrika ("sugar factory") neighbourhood, was opened on 28 November 1898 in the presence of Bulgarian monarch Prince Ferdin [...]
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Abandoned mine in Podlabin, former Pozzo Littorio d'Arsia. The mine operated from 1921 to 1991 [...]
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