The cupboards have taken a big hit.
Books by Mauri Sariola. I’ve never seen them anywhere else than in abandoned buildings.
The kitchen with red walls.
A VHS called Goose-Matti. Doesn’t look very tempting to me.
This looks more like my thing. I even had some of those Topps cards with the stuff I got from my family’s place in the spring.
A cassette by Kaseva, a famous band from the 1980’s, which gained quick fame and vanished quickly.
A picture of a locomotive and a hockey card file.
Going back towards the entrance of the apartment gives me a chance to show the beautiful double doors again.
This is the stairway in the other end of the building. I haven’t been here before.
There were large windows running through the height of the building here.
As I hadn’t been in this end of the building on the ground floor, I decided to go have a look to see what was there.
There was an access to the attic of the low wing in the stairway.
It was a dark place and quickly seen.
There were indeed spaces downstairs, which I hadn’t yet visited.
Looked like another apartment to me.
This apartment was sort of located behind further along the ground floor corridor behind the common room like room, but the ground floor corridor had been cut in half and this area was only accessible through the entrance in the side stairway.
Even this apartment looked like renovations had started.
A lonely radiator.
It’s hard to determine, whether the roof plates have been ripped off by vandals or by the beginning renovations.
Pipe access. And also basement access, it seems.
My wife is a huge Pokemon fan. As for me, I’m old enough to remember VHS tapes and the VCR craze of the early 1980’s. A great post as usual, my friend. 🙂
I was also a huge Pokemon fan as a child! The pure happiness of getting the final card in the original set is hard to match. I also spent countless hours playing the Game boy game.
Great locations make great posts 😉 Thank you!
When I saw your photos of this building for the first time I started wonder if this was the building that I remember from my childhood. I lived in a neighbouring town. I have one memory related to a building from the late 80’s: a very tall white building with huge windows. I went there with my dad to get a wood-burning stove. I just asked my dad if he knew this building and he told me that in fact he had gotten an old stove from a house which was about to be demolished and was located between the big building and the lakefront. Year must have been 87 or 88 so I was 4-5 years old. The white building must have impressed a small child very much because I remember this kind of moment so clear.
Thank you for your story! I actually checked old maps after reading your post, and there has been a building between the house and a lake. It is still visible in maps from 1979, but no longer in 1990. It is strange, how the human mind works.
But it is no wonder that you were impressed. The building is really unique, and it is sad to see it in such a shape. When I first saw pictures of it, I made a huge effort to find it, as I knew that I had to explore it. There’s just something special in this era of architecture. Even my career in urbex started from a tall, white factory, not this one, though.
If you lived in a neighbouring town in your childhood, you might spot some familiar places later on. Once, every summer, I travel to this area of Finland to photograph.
Yeah, functionalism looks brutal, dramatic and beautiful at the same time, I think. Obviously difficult to forget. There is indeed a lot to explore in this part of the province in view of the fact that there are so many places which have been losing population during the twenty years that I have (also) lived somewhere else.
Finland is a treasure island for urban explorers. In fact it has taken me so long to reply to your post, because I’ve been touring in the East for ten days. More content coming up.