VOL.01
A skeletal fortress built for Lawrence of Arabia, an American gas station used for a forgettable horror film now inhabited by an old shepherd and his dog; entire fake villages have been left behind by Hollywood to be battered by the sands of the south moroccan deserts. Photographer/ filmmaker Ra Di Martino sets the cameras rolling once again [...]
It was built for stockbrokers and bankers in their thousand dollar suits to make million dollar deals, but for nearly two decades it has held the less impressive title of the world’s tallest squat. Welcome to the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, more commonly known as the Torre David (the Tower of David) in Caracas, Venezuela, an unfinished skyscraper [...]
Young people in the neighborhood had never known a time when the doors of the old Louxor Movie Palace were ever open. Barricaded behind wooden boards, possibly the oldest surviving movie palace in Paris was abandoned for more than 20 years, gathering dust and standing lifeless and ignored at a busy cross-section in Barbès, a [...]
A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater hotel has become a bit of an institution with local fish who have been checking in since the 1960s. At 30 meters below sea level near a lighthouse called La Fourmigue, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains [...]
When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always something disgruntling about where we live (I’m currently annoyed with the workmen in the building who keep blanketing my mobylette in dust), but then you read about a place like the Ponte Tower and suddenly, wherever you’re shacked up doesn’t [...]
It was known as the ‘Party Pad’, a clandestine bring-your-own-bottle establishment occupying the upper floor of a deserted produce warehouse on Davis Street, downtown San Francisco. The underground hipster hub was run without a license by a beatnik generation actor and poet known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, a well-known figure of the bohemian scene in California [...]
Talk about skiing off-piste! Combining one of my favourite sports with our fascination for abandoned real estate, professional skier Logan Imlach tackled a less traditional terrain– the 1960s abandoned ‘Bucker building’ in Alaska. Once called ‘the City under one roof’, it was used as an army base, in anticipation of a Soviet invasion during the [...]
Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from the sand dunes stretching as far as Malibu, developed as “an isolated playground for the wealthy”– Surfridge, California was once one of the most coveted neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Today, it looks like this… (c) Eyetwist on Flickr (c) Houze on Flickr (c) [...]
More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco swimming pools of England, photographed by London-based photographer, Gigi Cifali, for her ongoing a series Absence of Water. You can almost still hear the sound of splashing and the echo of voices… Pictured above: Soho Marshall Pool in London, opened 1931 [...]
(c) El Toro Route 66; where all those wonderfully off-beat attractions of ‘Roadside America’ culture first sprouted. By the 1920s, Route 66, known then as the National Trail, was fast-becoming the most popular road in the country for Westward pioneers travelling across the Diablo Canyon. A 19th century isolated trading post in Arizona suddenly became a [...]
A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from
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The Rothschilds are known as one of the greatest European banking dynasties ever established,
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This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and
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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle
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Thomas Jorion has been exploring abandoned buildings since he was a child and he’s one of
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I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights
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Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may
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