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Nel 1929 viene costruita, su proposta di Arnaldo Mussolini, una centrale idroelettrica nel cuore delle campagne pavesi, nel piccolo paese di Torre de Negri, a pochi chilometri dal celebre castello di Belgioioso. Sul sito del comune pavese è presen [...]
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On April 1st 1929 Benito Mussolini inaugurated the Pavia seaplane base, in a part of the city almost forgotten nowadays. This building was meant to be a filling station for the seaplane traveling on the Torino - Venice - Trieste route. According [...]
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This building, built between the 30's and the 40's, initially hosted a women's college, but after World War II it became a psychiatric hospital, then an orphanage and finally a nursing home, before being abandoned. --- Costruito tra gli anni 30 e 4 [...]
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Ex Villaggio Sanatoriale "E. Morelli" di Sondalo (Sondrio), il più grande sanatorio europeo, costruito in stile razionalista-metafisico (1932-1939) come cittadella di fondazione alpina. Si tratta di una vera e propria struttura urbana, dotata di tut [...]
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L’ex Manifattura Tabacchi di Firenze è una piccola città nella città. Il complesso, formato da diversi edifici, ha ospitato dal 1940 al 2001 una delle più importanti fabbriche per la lavorazione del tabacco in Italia. L’intero quartiere che [...]
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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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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
A barely visible invocations salute you from the pediment: "Viva the nations fighting for peace" and "Welcome Congress". Just few meters away lies the modern subway station G.M.Dimitrov, but nearby residents have forgotten the purpose of these rui [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Depot, Station/rail
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Close to the former industrial train station named "Pioneer", whose railway was recently disassembled despite several protests, these storehouses and former plants from the communist era is now irreversibly lost. Not far from the heart of the city [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1962
SPACE TYPE: Sports facility
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
An abandoned ski lift. Built in 1962, it was the first ski lift in Bulgaria [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1945
SPACE TYPE: Bunker
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A secret bunker built around 1945 for the exclusive protection of the Bulgarian leaders during WWII, the Cold War and other attacks. Bunkers are usually built underground, but because of the high water level this one is above. It has two secured exi [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1935
SPACE TYPE: Sanatorium
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Nel 1935 dalla Valle di Fiemme giunse sull’Isola di Rodi, protettorato italiano, un gruppo di boscaioli e segantini fiemmesi con le loro famiglie. Il governatore italiano Mario Lago creò per loro un nuovo villaggio che fu chiamato Campochiaro, l'o [...]
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PRESERVATION STATUS: Reactivated
This village was built for the winter Olympic Games in 1984 close to Dobrinja, a suburb of Sarajevo. After the Games, it was habitat of intellectuals, foreign students and upper middle-class members of society. During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-199 [...]
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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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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1932
SPACE TYPE: School
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Designed by the engineer Guido Savini, the Santarelli kindergarden was built between 1931 and 1932 on the site of the former convent of Santa Maria in Valverde, replacing a former nursery school that had to be demolished because it was no longer fit [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Mental institution
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
A Volterra, Poggio alle Croci, sorgeva uno dei più grandi istituti psichiatrici italiani. Due delle strutture principali, il Maragliano (sede dei tubercolotici e dei bambini )e il Ferri (padiglione giudiziario) sono stati portati a termine tra il 1 [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Luogo di produzione fascista del latte "made in Puglia", di proprietà del Comune di Bari [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Station/rail
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
Situata sulla linea Civitavecchia – Orte, inaugurata nel 1928 in occasione del VI anniversario della Marcia su Roma, fu abbandonata nel 1961. Molto particolare lo stile architettonico della stazione, con decorazioni classicheggianti e tocchi lib [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1930
SPACE TYPE: Holiday camp
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
Built in the 30s by the Municipality of Faenza to accommodate children and war orphans, the building looks like a large brick manor house in a late and simple Liberty style [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1934
SPACE TYPE: Holiday camp
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Designed by engineer Costantini and built in just 3 months in 1934, the Amos Maramotti summer camp is composed of three buildings set in staggered fashion on a diagonal to the coastline. This ensured an east- west orientation giving greater exposure [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1938
SPACE TYPE: Holiday camp
PRESERVATION STATUS: Under-used
The holiday camp was built to host the children of the AGIP (the Italian company for fuel research and distribution) employees, on a project by Giuseppe Vaccaro, a follower of Le Corbusier. The construction works began in August 1937 and they were [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1938
SPACE TYPE: Holiday camp
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
This building, completed in 1938, shows great qualities both from the construction and the architectural point of view: everything from the southern facade, fully openable on the ground floor, the finishings in concrete, the two-colored facade, the s [...]
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Dopo essere stata adibita a scuola elementare nel dopoguerra, attualmente è in disuso [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1939
SPACE TYPE: Factory
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
La centrale elettrica di Santa Caterina è uno dei monumenti di archeologia industriale del Sulcis. Nonostante si tratti di una struttura imponente, si può attraversare l’istmo che da San Giovanni Suergiu porta a Calasetta senza quasi notarla. E [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1926
SPACE TYPE: Sports facility
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
La storia dello stadio Filadelfia inizia il 17 ottobre 1926 con gradinate in cemento e una tribuna in legno e ghisa costruita in stile liberty. Le poltroncine erano in legno, e tutte numerate, pronte ad ospitare 15.000 spettatori. Il Filadelfia fu lo [...]
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Abandoned coal mine in Perrenjas, close to Elbasan, built during the communist regime in 1958 [...]
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Once a european heavyweight class plant for copper, zinc, gold and silver now a Ironmongery cemetery [...]
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Many people worked all their life in a station that was crucial to the petroleum industry that was started by the Italians in 1919. The city of Kucova was in fact home of italian engineers and businessmen’s during that time [...]
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The Hotel was the place to be during the 60’s and further on, from food specialties and music events to espionage cases and all kinds of secret connections. It’s forgotten since a while now, after some art and music events inside the ruins too [...]
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One of the ex-guard places of the royal palace in Tirana. It was built from the fascist regime in 1939 [...]
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The dictatorship of Enver Hoxha deeply changed Albania, turning the formerly semi-feudal country into an industrialized economy, strictly following the soviet-stalinist industrial model. The Kombinat is the flagship of Albanian industry. These are [...]
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This place was a political prison, used during the dictatorship in Albania. It is located close to the village of Lezhe, in a mountainous and isolated region in the north of the country, which is still hard to reach. During the decades it was used [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1965
SPACE TYPE: Cemetery
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The Partisans' Memorial Cemetery in Mostar is on a site known as «Biskupova glavica» alongside King Petar Krešimir IV street, where the main entrance to the complex is located. The complex of the memorial cemetery stands on the northern slope of t [...]
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