Tag: Industrial
88 cursed places found
Barber Paper Mill
Former Paper Mill in Georgetown (Halton Hills), Ontario.
Six Flags Power Plant
Former amusement park. Six Flags Power Plant is a notable abandoned site in United States, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Beaver Mills
also known as Beaver Meadow, is a ghost town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, near U.S. Route 45, south of Citronelle.
Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Absheron peninsula to (overall; individually between 1 for Arteshgah, and 8 for Artyom) A semi-desert promontory that pokes out eastwards into the Caspian...
A Subtlety
(also known as the Marvelous Sugar Baby and subtitled an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane...
Barber
Maurer is residential neighbourhood and industrial district of Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Košice
The second largest city in Slovakia , after the capital Bratislava , and another industrial centre of the country (but also a university town).
Chuquicamata copper mine
This is a truly extreme attraction in northern Chile : the gigantic open-pit copper mine and adjacent smelter plant at Chuquicamata, in the Atacama...
Schaltwerk Hochhaus
The Schaltwerk Hochhaus building within the Siemens Factory was the first high-rise factory in Europa and it complemented it the horizontal complex of the...
Friedrich Steinberg, Herrmann&Co. Hat Factory
This is the first industrial plant built by Mendelshon.
Srebrenica
Potočari memorial site The memorial for what is known as the Srebrenica massacre, or even Srebrenica genocide , committed in July 1995 by Bosnian Serbs...
Kozloduy nuclear power plant
A large nuclear power station in Bulgaria – and until a few years ago one of the potentially most dangerous nuclear installations in the world.
A-Bomb Dome
The ruins of the former "Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall", gutted by the atomic bomb – ever since it has been THE landmark of Hiroshima ,...
Experimental Collective Housing
This project was made for the Experimental Housing competition convened by the National Institute of Housing, and hence it was thought to foresee the...
Belzec
Bełżec Bełżec was one of the three death camps purpose-built by the Nazis in the east of Poland as part of " Operation Reinhard ", which was the code name...
Coventry Cathedral
The new and old Cathedral in the city of Coventry, Great Britain .
Technopark
With the justification of creating not an ordinary office building, but a new range of workplaces serving both production and research, the Zurich...
From Lodge to Villa, Vernacular modernism in ViệtNam
**Article written by Phạm Phú Vinh ** Modernism diasporas can be found anywhere in the world.
Media Line Olympic Village
In 1971 Hans Hollein won the competition for the design of the public space of the Olympic Village of Munich with a project that solved the environmental...
House of the Wannsee Conference
On the surface just a stately villa in a pretty lake-side outer district of Berlin – but for its significance in the planning of the darkest chapter of...
Dwellings for Artists in Monte de El Pardo
“The landscape matters a lot. It is important to avoid uncontrolled contrast, violent imposition, destruction. Not to hurt a plant, or remove a blade.
Brooklyn Watefront
A design for a spectacular site on the Brooklyn waterfront situated opposite Lower Manhattan and below the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
Chalet Hindié
Designed in the early 1970’s by Lebanese architect Maurice Hindié, this mountain chalet was constructed as a home-refuge for the architect and his family...
Europan 5 Barakaldo
We want to resolve the Galindo area with a metaphor and not with a layout.
Notre-Dame à Royan
The architectural program of the church of Notre Dame, in Royan, responds to a classical concept.
Residência Baeta
The land of this house is at the foot of a mountain range, covered by the Atlantic Forest, by the sea.
Zacherlhaus
Johann Evangelist Zacherl was the son of industrialist Johann Zacherl, who had amassed wealth and prestige through the manufacture and distribution of...
Capilla Real de Naturales
The Royal Chapel is a temple built by indigenous people with a square plan, settled on the ancient temple of Quetzalcoatl, formed by 7 naves of equal...
Alexander
is an unincorporated community located in southern Erath County in Central Texas, United States.
Ekibastuz
Kazakhstan An industrial town in north eastern Kazakhstan , the country's principal coal-mining (in huge opencast pits!) and energy generation centre,...
Highgate cemetery, London
Highgate Cemetery A celebrated and extremely atmospheric Victorian cemetery in north London , Great Britain .
Aral Sea
The Aral Sea Rather: the area that once was the Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake on earth.
Villalba de Calatrava
This article is part of Never Modern, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we explore the conditions of several urban projects from 1950s onwards...
Armitalia Offices and Factory
The complex, located close to a motorway junction on the outskirts of Milan, consists of three buildings with heights and different features.
Resort Center Yamagata Hawaii Dreamland
“This building is based on a Metabolic Architecture of Cell. It is also a Ring Architecture (Loop Architecture) of circulation.
Atsena Otie Key
is an island and ghost town one-half mile offshore of Cedar Key, Florida.
Bates
is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. It has a post office with a ZIP code 97817. The elevation is 4,062 feet (1,238 m).
Electa Pavilion
To speak of the book pavilion is first to evoke things past, namely the two rows of trees between which the architectural office of Stirling Wilford &...
KarLag memorial, Dolinka
A memorial museum about the Soviet Union 's gulag system in the area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan , which had its headquarters here in the village of Dolinka.
Zorita Nuclear Power Plant Village
The original project for this first Nuclear Power Plant that Unión Eléctrica Madrileña is building in Zorita (Guadalajara) was based on a very compact...
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Sellafield
( in the past, now perhaps only or ) NOTE: this chapter is about the Sellafield site as such and in particular about its old/former visitor centre.
Aksu
A small industrial town in north-east Kazakhstan , which can make for a day trip from Pavlodar or a short stopover when passing through (en route to...
Darvaza flaming gas crater, Turkmenistan
Darvaza gas fire crater, Turkmenistan A crater in the desert – aka "Door to Hell" – full of countless gas fires that have been burning for decades.
Post Office
The Post Office in Rome, built between 1933 and 1935, was part of the rationalist architectural period that was developed during the Benito Mussolini...
Lodz
The third-largest city in Poland (after Warsaw and Krakow ), and one of its youngest.
Harrisburg Three Mile Island nuclear plant
Harrisburg, Three Mile Island NPP The site of the potentially worst nuclear power station accident before Chernobyl .
ATMA House
Mill Owner's Building, also known as Mill Owner's Association or Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association (ATMA), is a modern architecture building in...
Factory Diestre
The “Diestre” factory is considered the first work of Rafael Moneo, at that time a young and promising architect.
La Choricera
This article has been elaborated with images and texts given by the architect Ángel Verdasco . We would like to thank him for his help and kind assistance.
InterAction Centre
“As I am a generous person with a restricted intellect, I like to think that all these people that like exchanging things will be able to have fun but...
Forsmark nuclear power station
Sweden Sweden is one of the most ardent advocates of the use of nuclear power (while at the same time vehemently critical of nuclear arms).
1933 Shanghai Slaughterhouse
Built in 1933 in pre-Communist Shanghai, the four-story building was designed by British architects and built by Chinese developers with British concrete.
Sculptured House
Charles Deaton's projects always had a very personal character that was closer to the aerodynamic engineer and science fiction than to the specific...
Vanadzor
Armenia A provincial city in northern Armenia , listed here for its sprawling industrial wastelands of former Soviet chemical plants.
Dounreay exhibition, Thurso
Dounreay exhibition at Caithness Horizons, Thurso UPDATE October 2021: apparently this place is set to reopen in November under a new name: "North Coast...
Trawniki
A village in eastern Poland whose name became associated with the mostly Ukrainian guards who were recruited to serve in the concentration camps and, in...
Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku The capital city of Azerbaijan and the nation's travel hub.
Live Forever / The Return of the Factory
Live Forever: The return of the Fafactory We propose a building for 1,600 inhabitants located within the Telliskivi Creative Campus, a triangular site,...
Ben Youssef Madrasa
Ben Youssef's Madrasa was built in 1964 on the same site as an ancient madrasa that had been built 100 years earlier and is one of the most remarkable...
Gujarat State Fertilisers Corporation
Doshi's various township and housing studies of the past three decades constitute a virtual primer on how to build in a hot climate.
Resistance Museum Bergen
Resistance Museum, Bergen A museum in Bergen about the time of WWII and the resistance movement during the occupation of Norway by Germany .
Schöneweide Nazi forced labour camp memorial site
Schöneweide memorial A real rarity: a cluster of surviving original barracks that were once a Nazi forced labour camp in Berlin ...
Treblinka
One of the three death camps in Poland (together with Bełżec and Sobibor ) of the Nazis ' Operation Reinhard : the 'Final Solution", that is: the...
Sport and Recreation Centre ‘Boro and Ramiz’
*** Article written in collaboration with Art Dushi *** In 1974, during the Yugoslav Communist system in Kosovo, an architectural competition was launched...
Zhemchug
The city of Tashkent, with its almost three million inhabitants, is the capital and economic centre of Uzbekistan.
Loro Parisini Building
The programme consisted of creating the new administrative areas and connecting them with the already existing laboratory buildings.
Bogatyr opencast coal mining pit, Ekibastuz
Bogatyr opencast coal mining pit A gigantic black opencast coal pit near Ekibaztuz in Kazakhstan that is being mined on various levels simultaneously and...
The Doorn Manifesto
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture series “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”, where we will try to publish and bring back to current days forgotten...
Binning House
Of the many renowned early Modern houses on the West Coast of Canada, one of the earliest and most influential is the Binning Residence in West Vancouver.
industrial Workers Museum, Vemork
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork This site at a disused hydroelectric power station is not only one of Norway 's most significant industrial...
Mercado de Olavide
The Olavide Square, formerly called Industrial Square, had installed in its center, since 1875, a market that supplied the neighborhood of the primitive...
Linear City
“A frame in which all the functions of a city or part of a city are housed. It has been made possible by present day technology.
Shushtar New Town
This article is part of Never Modern, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we explore the conditions of several urban projects from 1950s onwards...
Proaza Hydroelectric Power Plant
*** Project proposed by César Alonso Moro *** In 1964, it was intended to solve the Salto of Proaza and the project was directly commissioned to Vaquero...
Escuela de Maestría Industrial
The building is made up of volumes that reveal the programmatic differentiation, generating a rectangular floor plan with interior courtyards open to the...
Madonna delle Grazie
The church stands as the fulcrum of the hamlet of Paniga, where it is inserted with mastery into the surrounding landscape with a successful combination...
Le Familistère Guise
The Phalanx, was the inspiration for one of the most impressive and intelligent attempts to build Utopia – one which, on the whole, functioned for a...
NORTHERN LIGHTS: Courthouse extension
This article is part of the Northern Lights series,a personal project curated by Biljana Janjušević, which has strong focus on the experience of the...
Kraftwerk Birsfelden
In the early to mid-1900s, unstable economic situations in Switzerland and the surrounding area hindered the efforts to supply the requisite electrical...
Temirtau
This central Kazakhstan town, just north of Karaganda , is a heavy-industry centre of infernal proportions, which includes one of the largest integrated...
Sisian
Not really a dark destination as such, but a representatively desolate, provincial town in remote south-east Armenia .
Panopticism: Presidio Modelo
The design consists of a circular structure with an “inspection house” at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch...
SEAT Dining Hall
The Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, S.A., which produces light cars in Spain, has built, in accordance with Spanish social legislation,...
The Cineroleum
was a self-initiated project that transformed a petrol station on Clerkenwell Road into a cinema.
Riehenring
The Riehenring development occupies a street block east of the apartment buildings on the Hammerstrasse.
Blockhaus d’Éperlecques
Le Blockhaus d’Éperlecques - This bunker and open-air museum was originally constructed as one of the V-weapons bases by Nazi Germany in the Pas-de-Calais...
Metsamor
Armenia - Metsamor is home to Armenia 's infamous nuclear power plant of the same name – reputedly one of the most dangerous such plants in the world.