The weekend was drawing to a close. My friend told me she now understood, why I regard Northern Karelia to be the most beautiful region in Finland. I had enjoyed the weekend, too. I always enjoy getting to go to the area.
There was one more location, I wanted to see on our way back.
And here we have it. This building is a former co-operative grocery store designed by Erkki Huttunen, one of my favorite architects. The building, which has fallen into an awful shape has been featured earlier in this post.
And although the building is as wrecked as it was in the previous post from the previous summer, I wasn’t entirely sure anymore that it was completely abandoned. I mean the cars on the yard are different, so at least something is happening here.
The former petrol station was still there too in an equally bad shape.
Even the mannequin is still there. The part of the building where the wall plaster had fallen off had been covered with the black thing above the window. It was an ad.
Littering forbidden.
Well, they surely didn’t obey.
I wonder, when the bar last was open. A company with this name actually still exists and its address is to this building.
Is that a curtain or the wallpaper falling off?
I really hope someone would fix this beauty.
By the way the blue Volvo in the left corner of the photo is my friend’s car, with which we did this trip. It seems that I only explore using old Volvos.
My friend dropped me off at Lahti station that evening and so our journey ended. But the following exploration was already planned.
The mannequin scares me for a moment :)))
I was pretty scared, too, when I saw it for the first time. Now I’ve learned to expect it. This was my second visit to the location.
:)))