Archive for the ‘Abandoned’ Category:
Urban Decay
Image by szeke
While walking along the Danube on the Buda side you go past a whole section of abandoned buildings. They look like they were nice in their day.
abandoned building
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abandoned building in rochester
Upper floor gymnasium. Abandoned City Methodist Church. Gary, Indiana.
Image by slworking2
City Methodist Church, 577 Washington St. (empty for years) stands nine stories tall. The Church made unique use of commercial and office space, classrooms, meeting rooms, an auditorium and a large sanctuary. Storefronts (visible in this picture) were incorporated into the building. The building still stands, but is in desperate need of stabilization. One architect has offered plans to turn the church into a "ruins garden" like those found in Europe.
Even in abandonment, this building is beautiful and a source of fascination for many. It has been photographed, explored and documented by countless people. Photographer Robert Perisho dedicated an entire photographic exhibition to the church in 1997 at the Lake Street Gallery in Miller. Some of the information on this page comes from his essay and fact sheet on the church.
This church was badly damaged in a fire in 1997.
The church was built at a cost of more than million by the Rev. William G. Seaman in 1926. United States Steel Corp. donated funds to complete the building.
The church is in the traditional English Gothic style of architecture, like some of the buildings that the famed United States Military Academy at West Point and elsewhere throughout the United states.
This was, and is, a remarkable building: besides the cathedral, there was a four story community center with classrooms, an auditorium, a motion picture booth, a banquet hall and kitchen, a fellowship garden, a large meeting hall, a gymnasium and a rooftop garden. The building was built to be not only at church, but a place for the entire community to gather.
Sadly, due to the shifting population of Northwest Indiana, the congregation of the church shrank drastically in the 1960s and could no longer afford the upkeep of the building. A committee held a meeting in October 1974 to determine the fate of the church. They decided to relocate and close the church as of January 3rd, 1975. The building was sold to Indiana University as a campus extension but nothing was done with it..
The building was used sporadically as church by another congregation, a local dance center and a halfway home for underprivileged children and single parents, but it eventually fell into abandonment and disuse. The building stands open to the elements and vandals.
Previously. the building was under the ownership of B&R Realty in Gary, listed to a Trades, Inc. but now may be owned by the city of Gary.
HDR* Urban Decay
Image by kchbrown
Technically this is really a single RAW file that has been tone-mapped using Photomatix and then touched and tweaked using the high-pass filter in Photoshop. This photo was shot with the Fuji Finepix S5200 while crossing the South Street bridge which itself is decaying. This wall is part of an old wharehouse I believe. Inspired by Okaypro!
ghost-write 4
Image by flavijus
the city ghost-write. (among the shades)
Abandoned building – Sierra Espuña
Image by howzey
An abandoned building, Sierra Espuna, Murcia, Spain
Temple Guardians, Feng-Du (Ghost City)
Image by Xabi_Alonso_Rebound
Abandoned Building
Image by Whitney GH
An abandoned building in Belle Mina, Alabama.
Ghost City
Image by Under Aurora Borealis
Down Town Tallinn
Urban Exploring ACM
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Aankoop Centrale Groningen
Vertigo
Image by intermayer
The increasing birth rate in the early 1900s demanded more children hospitals. The ‘Säuglings- und Kinderklinik Berlin Weißensee’ was built 1909 according to the planning of architect Carl James Bühring. Itwas known as one of the best hospitals and used as a training centre too.
More buildings were erected from 1911 until 1987. For ensuring the milk support they even built a cow farm and a dairy. Maybe not one of the best ideas, 9 years later the cow farm and the milk facility were closed.
The hospital has been closed by the end of 1996 and was sold to a group of investors in 2006.
Since over 12 years its left alone. Can you hear the echo of a crying or laughing baby from time to time? Can you see concerned parents waiting on the floor or sitting by the bed of their child? Or is it just an abandoned building?
www.urbex.nl/portal.php?page=144
tinetinbeelitz.blogspot.com/2008/10/kinderkrankenhaus-wei…
See a shot from the outside:
flickr.com/photos/intermayer/3316997686/
Urban Decay
Image by ZeroOne
The decaying ruins of a gazebo in Laajasalo, Helsinki, Finland.
WhitechapelDemsne
Image by Liqueur Felix
Created by Dorien Gray from DOOR. The region message says currently under construction. It seems a quiet, nice abandoned place for grown-ups.
Posted by Second Life Resident Liqueur Felix. Visit Whitechapel.
Locker room. Abandoned City Methodist Church. Gary, Indiana.
Image by slworking2
City Methodist Church, 577 Washington St. (empty for years) stands nine stories tall. The Church made unique use of commercial and office space, classrooms, meeting rooms, an auditorium and a large sanctuary. Storefronts (visible in this picture) were incorporated into the building. The building still stands, but is in desperate need of stabilization. One architect has offered plans to turn the church into a "ruins garden" like those found in Europe.
Even in abandonment, this building is beautiful and a source of fascination for many. It has been photographed, explored and documented by countless people. Photographer Robert Perisho dedicated an entire photographic exhibition to the church in 1997 at the Lake Street Gallery in Miller. Some of the information on this page comes from his essay and fact sheet on the church.
This church was badly damaged in a fire in 1997.
The church was built at a cost of more than million by the Rev. William G. Seaman in 1926. United States Steel Corp. donated funds to complete the building.
The church is in the traditional English Gothic style of architecture, like some of the buildings that the famed United States Military Academy at West Point and elsewhere throughout the United states.
This was, and is, a remarkable building: besides the cathedral, there was a four story community center with classrooms, an auditorium, a motion picture booth, a banquet hall and kitchen, a fellowship garden, a large meeting hall, a gymnasium and a rooftop garden. The building was built to be not only at church, but a place for the entire community to gather.
Sadly, due to the shifting population of Northwest Indiana, the congregation of the church shrank drastically in the 1960s and could no longer afford the upkeep of the building. A committee held a meeting in October 1974 to determine the fate of the church. They decided to relocate and close the church as of January 3rd, 1975. The building was sold to Indiana University as a campus extension but nothing was done with it..
The building was used sporadically as church by another congregation, a local dance center and a halfway home for underprivileged children and single parents, but it eventually fell into abandonment and disuse. The building stands open to the elements and vandals.
Previously. the building was under the ownership of B&R Realty in Gary, listed to a Trades, Inc. but now may be owned by the city of Gary.
Urban decay in Harrow
Image by Kaustav Bhattacharya
Harrow isn’t what it used to be like way back when. Now we have to put up with this sort of urban decay.
– Taken at 4:09 PM on May 20, 2007 – cameraphone upload by ShoZu