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25 abandonedSoviet Yugoslavia monuments that look like they are from the future
Edit: Διορθώθηκε κι εδώ. Ευχαριστώ, Μαρίνο.
25 abandoned
Edit: Διορθώθηκε κι εδώ. Ευχαριστώ, Μαρίνο.
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abandoned and derelict
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Διορθώθηκε το Soviet σε Yugoslavian, μετά από σχετικό κράξιμο στα σχόλια, βλέπω.
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10 abandoned places
Hashima Island, Japan / Centralia, USA / Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany (photos) / Oradur-sur-Glane, France
Maunsell Sea Forts, UK / Bodie, California, USA / Humberstone, Chile / Kolmanskop, Namibia / Craco, Italy
Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine
10 abandoned places, batch 2
Belchite, Spain / Wittenoom, Australia / Tomioka, Japan / Pyramiden, Norway / Varosha, Cyprus (Βαρώσια)
Agdam, Azerbaijan / Picher, Oklahoma, USA / Spinalonga, Greece / Butugichag, Russia / Balaklava Submarine Base, Ukraine
10 abandoned places
Hashima Island, Japan / Centralia, USA / Beelitz-Heilstätten, Germany (photos) / Oradur-sur-Glane, France
Maunsell Sea Forts, UK / Bodie, California, USA / Humberstone, Chile / Kolmanskop, Namibia / Craco, Italy
Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine
10 abandoned places, batch 2
Belchite, Spain / Wittenoom, Australia / Tomioka, Japan / Pyramiden, Norway / Varosha, Cyprus (Βαρώσια)
Agdam, Azerbaijan / Picher, Oklahoma, USA / Spinalonga, Greece / Butugichag, Russia / Balaklava Submarine Base, Ukraine
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Λοιπόν, τώρα είδα αυτό το νήμα απ' την αρχή. Από τα λυκειακά μου χρόνια, στο τέλος της δεκαετίας του '80, έχω δύο ερείπια ή μισοερείπια να προσφέρω, και τα δύο τώρα αποκαταστημένα πλήρως (δεν είμαι σίγουρος ότι τα προτιμώ έτσι):
Το ένα, η βίλα του Ανδρέα Συγγρού, έργο του Τσίλερ στο άλσος Αναβρύτων, τότε Κλασικό Λύκειο Αναβρύτων, τώρα ιδιοκτησία του Γεωπονικού Πανεπιστημίου αν θυμάμαι καλά την ταμπέλα. Εκεί πήγαινα σχολείο, και ήταν κάπως έτσι:
Ακόμα στεκόταν στα πόδια της, με εξαίρεση τον πυργίσκο και το αποκάτω δωμάτιο, στο οποίο (απ' όσο μπορώ να ξέρω) συχνάζαμε μόνο εγώ και η παρέα μου. Υπήρχαν και υπόγεια, πρώην πλυσταριά, στα οποία δεν καταφέραμε να μπούμε ποτέ. Περισσότερα (λίγα, στην πραγματικότητα) εδώ ή εδώ.
Το δεύτερο, σχεδόν απέναντι απ' το πρώτο (στην άλλη μεριά της Κηφισίας): η βίλα Καζούλη. Τώρα στεγάζει το Εθνικό Κέντρο Περιβάλλοντος και Αειφόρου Ανάπτυξης (ανάθεμα αν ξέρω τι είναι), τότε ήταν ο παράδεισος της ίδιας παρέας, που την άραζε εκεί σε κάθε ευκαιρία κοπάνας, από τα υπόγεια μέχρι την ταράτσα, στη σκιά του χαρακτηριστικού θόλου. Λεπτομέρεια: γεμάτη χαρτονένια σκηνικά (πόρτες, κάγκελα, κολώνες...) μια και για καιρό χρησιμοποιούνταν από την ΕΡΤ για εσωτερικά γυρίσματα (από τη Χιλιοποδαρούσα και τη ρουμπρίκα της «Γράψε την ιστορία», μέχρι το Ρεμπέτικο του Φέρρη --τη σειρά, όχι την ταινία). Περισσότερα, π.χ., εδώ και (με πολλές φωτογραφίες, αλλά σε μένα τουλάχιστον δεν διαβάζεται το κείμενο: κάτι πήγε στραβά με την κωδικοποίηση) εδώ. Α, εδώ λέει ότι έχει και φαντάσματα (δεν τα είχαμε πετύχει).
Το ένα, η βίλα του Ανδρέα Συγγρού, έργο του Τσίλερ στο άλσος Αναβρύτων, τότε Κλασικό Λύκειο Αναβρύτων, τώρα ιδιοκτησία του Γεωπονικού Πανεπιστημίου αν θυμάμαι καλά την ταμπέλα. Εκεί πήγαινα σχολείο, και ήταν κάπως έτσι:
Ακόμα στεκόταν στα πόδια της, με εξαίρεση τον πυργίσκο και το αποκάτω δωμάτιο, στο οποίο (απ' όσο μπορώ να ξέρω) συχνάζαμε μόνο εγώ και η παρέα μου. Υπήρχαν και υπόγεια, πρώην πλυσταριά, στα οποία δεν καταφέραμε να μπούμε ποτέ. Περισσότερα (λίγα, στην πραγματικότητα) εδώ ή εδώ.
Το δεύτερο, σχεδόν απέναντι απ' το πρώτο (στην άλλη μεριά της Κηφισίας): η βίλα Καζούλη. Τώρα στεγάζει το Εθνικό Κέντρο Περιβάλλοντος και Αειφόρου Ανάπτυξης (ανάθεμα αν ξέρω τι είναι), τότε ήταν ο παράδεισος της ίδιας παρέας, που την άραζε εκεί σε κάθε ευκαιρία κοπάνας, από τα υπόγεια μέχρι την ταράτσα, στη σκιά του χαρακτηριστικού θόλου. Λεπτομέρεια: γεμάτη χαρτονένια σκηνικά (πόρτες, κάγκελα, κολώνες...) μια και για καιρό χρησιμοποιούνταν από την ΕΡΤ για εσωτερικά γυρίσματα (από τη Χιλιοποδαρούσα και τη ρουμπρίκα της «Γράψε την ιστορία», μέχρι το Ρεμπέτικο του Φέρρη --τη σειρά, όχι την ταινία). Περισσότερα, π.χ., εδώ και (με πολλές φωτογραφίες, αλλά σε μένα τουλάχιστον δεν διαβάζεται το κείμενο: κάτι πήγε στραβά με την κωδικοποίηση) εδώ. Α, εδώ λέει ότι έχει και φαντάσματα (δεν τα είχαμε πετύχει).
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Λεπτομέρεια από άλλο εγκαταλειμμένο τόπο, το Κράκο της Κάτω Ιταλίας που αναφέρεται παραπάνω:
Today, the ghost town of Craco is visited by many tourists as well as many old residents who return back to the their hometown for annual religious festivals. The image of Craco has been used over the years in various films as a background setting; Quantum of Solace and The Passion of the Christ, being two of them.
http://desertedplaces.blogspot.com/2013/10/craco-medieval-italian-ghost-town.html
Because of its unique and particular landscape Craco has been the setting of many movies. In The Passion of The Christ (2004) by Mel Gibson, Craco is the town that can be seen in the scene of the hanging of Judas.
Other films shot in the ghost town include:
- La lupa (1953), by Alberto Lattuada
- Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), by Francesco Rosi
- King David (1985), by Bruce Beresford
- Saving Grace (1986), by Robert M. Young
- The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990), by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- The Nymph (1996), by Lina Wertmüller
- The Nativity Story (2006), by Catherine Hardwicke
- Quantum of Solace (2008), by Marc Forster
- Basilicata coast to coast (2010), by Rocco Papaleo
- Murder in the dark (2013), by Dagen Merrill
Αν ορίσεις κωδικοποίηση Unicode στις ρυθμίσεις προβολής γραμματοσειρών του ιστοπλοϊκού, εμφανίζεται μια χαρά το κείμενο.
Ντεζαβού. :)
bernardina
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Once-proud visions of suburban utopia are left to rot as online shopping and the resurgence of city centres make malls increasingly irrelevant to young people
For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin. As Joan Didion wrote in 1979, malls became “cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”. Peppered throughout disconnected suburbs, they were a place to see and be seen, something shoppers have craved since the days of the Greek agora. And they quickly matured into a self-contained ecosystem, with their own species – mall rats, mall cops, mall walkers – and an annual feeding frenzy known as Black Friday.
“Local governments had never dealt with this sort of development and were basically bamboozled [by developers],” Underhill says of the mall planning process. “In contrast to Europe, where shopping malls are much more a product of public-private negotiation and funding, here in the US most were built under what I call ‘cowboy conditions’.”
Shopping centres in Europe might contain grocery stores or childcare centres, while those in Japan are often built around mass transit. But the suburban American variety is hard to get to and sells “apparel and gifts and damn little else”, Underhill says.
Nearly 700 shopping centres are “super-regional” megamalls, retail leviathans usually of at least 1 million square feet and upward of 80 stores. Megamalls typically outperform their 800 slightly smaller, “regional” counterparts, though size and financial health don’t overlap entirely. It’s clearer, however, that luxury malls in affluent areas are increasingly forcing the others to fight for scraps. Strip malls – up to a few dozen tenants conveniently lined along a major traffic artery – are retail’s bottom feeders and so well-suited to the new environment. But midmarket shopping centres have begun dying off alongside the middle class that once supported them. Regional malls have suffered at least three straight years of declining profit per square foot, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC).
These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday. The work includes photographs from Randall Park Mall, a Cleveland-area shopping centre being demolished after five years of vacancy, and Rolling Acres, to which the tattooed, mohawk-sporting photographer returned in late May.
Vandals have left none of the mall’s glass storefronts in tact – “kids coming in and breaking shit,” Lawless explains. Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways. Coupons offering $10 off at Radioshack, a retailer that announced the closure of up to 1,100 stores last year, are still scattered about the tile floors.
Built in 1975, when times were good, Rolling Acres and its 1.2 million square feet once boasted 140 stores. “All of Akron shopped at the megamall,” the Cleveland Plain-Dealer recalled. “Gone are the glory days.” A man was electrocuted in 2011 when trying to steal copper piping from the structure, and the body of a serial killer victim was found in a shallow grave behind the mall that same year.
Και άλλα πολλά στο The death of the American Mall
For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin. As Joan Didion wrote in 1979, malls became “cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”. Peppered throughout disconnected suburbs, they were a place to see and be seen, something shoppers have craved since the days of the Greek agora. And they quickly matured into a self-contained ecosystem, with their own species – mall rats, mall cops, mall walkers – and an annual feeding frenzy known as Black Friday.
“Local governments had never dealt with this sort of development and were basically bamboozled [by developers],” Underhill says of the mall planning process. “In contrast to Europe, where shopping malls are much more a product of public-private negotiation and funding, here in the US most were built under what I call ‘cowboy conditions’.”
Shopping centres in Europe might contain grocery stores or childcare centres, while those in Japan are often built around mass transit. But the suburban American variety is hard to get to and sells “apparel and gifts and damn little else”, Underhill says.
Nearly 700 shopping centres are “super-regional” megamalls, retail leviathans usually of at least 1 million square feet and upward of 80 stores. Megamalls typically outperform their 800 slightly smaller, “regional” counterparts, though size and financial health don’t overlap entirely. It’s clearer, however, that luxury malls in affluent areas are increasingly forcing the others to fight for scraps. Strip malls – up to a few dozen tenants conveniently lined along a major traffic artery – are retail’s bottom feeders and so well-suited to the new environment. But midmarket shopping centres have begun dying off alongside the middle class that once supported them. Regional malls have suffered at least three straight years of declining profit per square foot, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC).
These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday. The work includes photographs from Randall Park Mall, a Cleveland-area shopping centre being demolished after five years of vacancy, and Rolling Acres, to which the tattooed, mohawk-sporting photographer returned in late May.
Vandals have left none of the mall’s glass storefronts in tact – “kids coming in and breaking shit,” Lawless explains. Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways. Coupons offering $10 off at Radioshack, a retailer that announced the closure of up to 1,100 stores last year, are still scattered about the tile floors.
Built in 1975, when times were good, Rolling Acres and its 1.2 million square feet once boasted 140 stores. “All of Akron shopped at the megamall,” the Cleveland Plain-Dealer recalled. “Gone are the glory days.” A man was electrocuted in 2011 when trying to steal copper piping from the structure, and the body of a serial killer victim was found in a shallow grave behind the mall that same year.
Και άλλα πολλά στο The death of the American Mall
Συγγνώμη που αυτοτσιτάρομαι, αλλά η ανακίνηση του νήματος από την Μπέρνι μού θύμισε αυτή την ανάμνηση και τη φωτογραφία που είχα βρει από το Μάρτιο και μοιάζει πάρα πολύ με την εικόνα που έχω στο νου μου —μαζί με το φλουτάρισμά της.
bernardina
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Καθόλου δεν μας πειράζει που αυτοτσιτάρεσαι. Η φωτογραφία είναι συγκλονιστική.
bernardina
Moderator
Από το σπουδαίο λινκ του Μαρίνου.
Ο Γεώργιος Τυπάλδος-Αλφονσάτος (δεν θυμάμαι αν το έχω ξαναπεί) είναι ο πατέρας της ελληνικής εραλδικής. Μαζί με τον Ευγένιο Ρίζο-Ραγκαβή συνέγραψαν το μόνο εγχειρίδιο εραλδικής που υπάρχει στα ελληνικά.
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Linda Vista Revisited: East LA's Abandoned Hospital
In 2008, while scouting for a short film that never came to fruition, some friends and I talked our way inside an empty, run-down hospital in Boyle Heights. The short was supposed to take place in a hospital, but after a few minutes wandering the halls of Linda Vista -- alone and decidedly creeped-out -- it became obvious that there was no way the place would work. It had been closed for twenty years, and it showed: there was dirt caked in layers on walls and mysteriously wet floors; windows were broken and doors hung off their hinges; ceiling tiles had fallen victim to moisture and gravity, and rats had chewed through the walls. We didn't have the money to make Linda Vista look like anything more than a horror movie -- a few of which had actually been shot there over the years.
I was only inside for 45 minutes or so, running through the place snapping photos on the fly with a crappy point-and-shoot. I featured some of them in this post from last year, but promised myself I would go back with a DSLR, a tripod and a few hours to kill, and really explore the place. A year later, I finally did.
[...]
Linda Vista Revisited: East LA's Abandoned Hospital
In 2008, while scouting for a short film that never came to fruition, some friends and I talked our way inside an empty, run-down hospital in Boyle Heights. The short was supposed to take place in a hospital, but after a few minutes wandering the halls of Linda Vista -- alone and decidedly creeped-out -- it became obvious that there was no way the place would work. It had been closed for twenty years, and it showed: there was dirt caked in layers on walls and mysteriously wet floors; windows were broken and doors hung off their hinges; ceiling tiles had fallen victim to moisture and gravity, and rats had chewed through the walls. We didn't have the money to make Linda Vista look like anything more than a horror movie -- a few of which had actually been shot there over the years.
I was only inside for 45 minutes or so, running through the place snapping photos on the fly with a crappy point-and-shoot. I featured some of them in this post from last year, but promised myself I would go back with a DSLR, a tripod and a few hours to kill, and really explore the place. A year later, I finally did.
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Self-Sustaining Urban Ecosystem Discovered In Abandoned Building In Thailand
Thailand’s capital is a vibrant city full of surprises, and this abandoned shopping mall in old town Bangkok is certainly no exception. Tucked away behind an unassuming looking gate is New World shopping mall which burned down back in 1999. Because it doesn’t have a roof anymore, the basement is flooded all year round.
At some stage, a person started introducing Koi and Catfish into the basement. The population thrived and now this abandoned building has transitioned into a self-sustained, urban aquarium!
Photographer and professional cook Jesse Rockwell was lucky enough to find out where this hidden gem lies and took some snaps of it, it's pretty cool.
Derelict but not entirely abandoned.
Self-Sustaining Urban Ecosystem Discovered In Abandoned Building In Thailand
Thailand’s capital is a vibrant city full of surprises, and this abandoned shopping mall in old town Bangkok is certainly no exception. Tucked away behind an unassuming looking gate is New World shopping mall which burned down back in 1999. Because it doesn’t have a roof anymore, the basement is flooded all year round.
At some stage, a person started introducing Koi and Catfish into the basement. The population thrived and now this abandoned building has transitioned into a self-sustained, urban aquarium!
Photographer and professional cook Jesse Rockwell was lucky enough to find out where this hidden gem lies and took some snaps of it, it's pretty cool.
Derelict but not entirely abandoned.
bernardina
Moderator
The Tower of Babel exists, not in Babylon but in South America, in a country of endless oil towers and surgery-happy Miss Universes (seven so far, a world record): Venezuela, or Little Venice, as the conquistadors called this land where indigenous huts built on wooden stakes recalled the fabled city surrounded by its lagoon. Venezuela’s architectural etymology seems to have anticipated its urban exuberance, a dynamism notable even for a continent in which architectural feats are hardly exceptional.
Read more (a helicode of a lot more) in Helicode, an epic architectural fail.
Τι ωραία (λεξιλογική) ανακάλυψη: Βενεζουέλα, η Μικρή Βενετία!
In 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, so he named the region "Veneziola". The name acquired its current spelling as a result of Spanish influence, where the suffix -uela is used as a diminutive term (e.g., plaza / plazuela, cazo / cazuela); thus, the term's original sense would have been that of a "little Venice". The German term for the area, "Klein-Venedig", also means little Venice (literally "small Venice").
Nonetheless, although the Vespucci story remains the most popular and accepted version of the origin of the country's name, a different reason for the name comes up in the account of Martín Fernández de Enciso, a member of the Vespucci and Ojeda crew. In his work Summa de geografía, he states that they found an indigenous population who called themselves the "Veneciuela", which suggests that the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from the native word.
Από την αγγλική Βικιπαίδεια. Πιο εκτεταμένο το λήμμα στην ισπανική.
Έχει και στη Λεξιλογία Μικρή Βενετία!
In 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, so he named the region "Veneziola". The name acquired its current spelling as a result of Spanish influence, where the suffix -uela is used as a diminutive term (e.g., plaza / plazuela, cazo / cazuela); thus, the term's original sense would have been that of a "little Venice". The German term for the area, "Klein-Venedig", also means little Venice (literally "small Venice").
Nonetheless, although the Vespucci story remains the most popular and accepted version of the origin of the country's name, a different reason for the name comes up in the account of Martín Fernández de Enciso, a member of the Vespucci and Ojeda crew. In his work Summa de geografía, he states that they found an indigenous population who called themselves the "Veneciuela", which suggests that the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from the native word.
Από την αγγλική Βικιπαίδεια. Πιο εκτεταμένο το λήμμα στην ισπανική.
Έχει και στη Λεξιλογία Μικρή Βενετία!
bernardina
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Φωτογραφίζοντας τα μέρη-φαντάσματα του πλανήτη.
Η Ιωάννα Σακελλαράκη, μέλος της παγκόσμιας κοινότητας του Urban Exploration μας αποκαλύπτει τη γοητεία της αστικής εγκατάλειψης
Τελικά είμαστε πολλοί...
Η Ιωάννα Σακελλαράκη, μέλος της παγκόσμιας κοινότητας του Urban Exploration μας αποκαλύπτει τη γοητεία της αστικής εγκατάλειψης
Τελικά είμαστε πολλοί...
Ghost factories of Greece
[...] Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis travelled from Athens to northeastern Greece and back via the Peloponnese region in the south in search of the remnants of a once-flourishing Greek industry, which has suffered a 30 percent drop in production from its peak. [...]
[...] Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis travelled from Athens to northeastern Greece and back via the Peloponnese region in the south in search of the remnants of a once-flourishing Greek industry, which has suffered a 30 percent drop in production from its peak. [...]
Νομίζω ότι διαφαίνεται και στο κείμενο η παρατήρησή σου. Αφενός π.χ. εδώ
[...] All these thoughts were bouncing around my mind as I drove north seeking to document the deindustrialisation of Greece. Hundreds of factories have closed down in the past three decades for a number of reasons, but the recent financial crisis has become the tombstone of Greece’s industrial era. [...]
και αφετέρου από τις χρονολογίες που δίνει για τα περισσότερα εργοστάσια που έχει φωτογραφίσει (ένα μόνο τοποθετείται σαφώς μέσα στην κρίση, το 2011).
[...] All these thoughts were bouncing around my mind as I drove north seeking to document the deindustrialisation of Greece. Hundreds of factories have closed down in the past three decades for a number of reasons, but the recent financial crisis has become the tombstone of Greece’s industrial era. [...]
και αφετέρου από τις χρονολογίες που δίνει για τα περισσότερα εργοστάσια που έχει φωτογραφίσει (ένα μόνο τοποθετείται σαφώς μέσα στην κρίση, το 2011).