The party was over, and so was my first period of summer holidays. I spent the final Sunday roaming around the city where I was for the party. I first tried to locate this beauty, but sadly it had been demolished.
So I turned my eyes to the old sailor school seen in the first photo. Built in the late 1960’s, it had stood abandoned since 2013, when the school moved to a new location. The story is familiar: the museum authorities want to protect, the city wants to demolish.
Not the most beautiful of buildings, but it has its thing.
Educating sailors since 1813.
Thoroughly boarded shut.
Too thoroughly in my opinion.
The same theme continued on the back side.
The garage door was a bit of a surprise.
It was starting to look like there was no way in.
And also there were cameras. Not really sure, if they were functioning or not.
The glass tiles are an underrated feature and common to 1960’s buildings.
The only thing to see here was the graffiti exhibition on the walls.
Walkaround completed. No success.
There are so many buildings like this in my hometown. I’d love to explore them but they’re all sewn up like these with no way in. Others are being used as sketchy warehouses probably being used for fencing operations or drug trafficking. I don’t know how often that kind of stuff goes down in Finland and in this case and some other buildings you’ve mentioned, I think it’s just the authorities keeping people out for liability reasons. I think your country values citizen safety more than the us sadly. But it’s still important to document these buildings from the outside belle as you’ve said before one day they’re just gone.
We have the same issues in Finland, but in a much smaller scale. The thing with this and other public buildings is, that they are owned by the cities or the state. They really just stand there sewn up with no use, whatsoever.
Year after year I return to the same locations hoping that someone has made a way in. Maybe one day.