History
A few houses prominently stand in the way of the completion of a highway interchange. As countryside space is consumed by urban development, encounters with opposition of some form is unavoidable. The nail house has become an emblematic characteristic, intricately connected to rapid urbanization.
Read MoreThese photos capture the brief mid-demolition period of a factory town, which itself is a product of a quickly changing man-altered urban-landscape, dismantled to make way for yet another redefining of that landscape.
Read MoreThe No.3 Blast Furnace at Shougang Iron and Steel, 2011.
A decade before Shougang Iron and Steel hosted Olympic sporting events, it was an immense decaying complex of blast furnaces, coke ovens, pipes and coal conveyors. While the 2008 Olympics brought the end of the manufacturing operations of Shougang Steel, the 2022 Olympics catalyzed its rebirth.
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Local authorities identified this petroleum refinery as a major cause of poor air quality in the region. In its later years it was fined for environmental violations and slated for relocation
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Directly on a beach in Vietnam is an entire village presumably made up of Rông Houses manifested from the Central Highland of the country. Upon closer scrutiny, these are actually the villas of a failed beach resort.
Read MoreTwo of the larger water slide attractions
Business was operating normally toward the end of summer when a group of ruffians barged into the park, demanding money. They kicked out the staff and blocked the entrances. Staff called the police, but they refused to intervene. What was the story behind this abandoned water park?
Read MoreThis school never opened, but why are there so many books inside, and why does it show up in so many K-pop videos?
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At one time Thuy Tien Lake was a bit more mysterious and sensational. Accounts claimed the only way to find the park was by directions passed from one backpacker to another and tales spoke of starving crocodiles left to fend for themselves inside the park’s aquarium. Today the crumbling water park is listed clearly on Google Maps.
Read MoreThe most authentic sections of the Great Wall stand slowly decaying since their original construction hundreds of years before. These are far off the tourist routes and not serviced by roads, cable cars or tourist infrastructure.
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As major Chinese urban centers develop and environmental protection standards improve, tolerance for polluting industries. After 60 years of operation, this cafeteria was one of the few structures in the sprawling factory compound that had not yet been razed.
Read MoreThere are no photos from this theme park when it was open, and images seen today show rides with eerie cartoon faces. Okpo Land’s lore tells of deaths of children on rides at the park. But did this shoddy park really have homicidal amusement rides? And why is this scrappy park so famous?
Read MoreThis stately Neoclassical house in the middle of Portland was not only vacant but abandoned. Inside, the house was clean and well-preserved with little damage…
Read MoreInside the base of the cooling tower.
On first look, the collection of structures assembled at a few hundred meters from a creek inlet are mystifying. A massive, reinforced concrete wall would seem to be a single section of the ramparts to some kind of futuristic castle...
Read MoreCanceled before it could reach 50% completion, this nuclear power plant features an unfinished reactor containment vessel. The turbine hall is like a jump puzzle setpiece in a video game with openings in the floor leading to dark flooded cellars of imperceptible depth. With more than 30 years of unconstrained intrusion, nature has completely infiltrated all the structures chambers and alcoves.
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This development of minimalist concrete cuboidal villas was almost complete. Housing developments that are built, unfinished and demolished are nothing unusual in China
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Designed as a vanity project, a year after opening the Zhuhai Opera House still appeared unused and unfinished. The cultural and commercial spaces were nearly entirely vacant. Construction materials were piled up around the Opera House.
Read MoreClosed in 1988, the Pizitz department store is representative of the migration out of urban centers in the United States. The 8-floor store was iconic in the city, yet it still fell victim to the gradual loss of economic activity in Birmingham
Read MoreHidden amid the northern regions of Greater London resides what appears to be an abandoned cemetery. By day and night, Abney Park emanates an eerie impression, with densely packed tombs overgrown with vines. Ancient trees have tilted or completely upset most of the headstones and monuments.
Read MoreAt one point long after its pinnacle, the Lyric theatre was only valued at $10. That was in 1993 …
Read MoreIncidentally, some of the 1992 David Diesing photos at the Library of Congress are nearly the same view as mine. It is interesting to compare what has changed in the nearly two decades of time that has elapsed.
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