Like I’ve already stated numerous times, I’ve been touring Finland so much by now, that I have a massive Excel file with abandoned buildings. The summer of 2023 was all about touring places listed in that Excel. So far I had been disappointed by the amount of successess. Apart from the old town hall, I hadn’t really gotten much off it. Instead the list was growing as was my frustration.
The following location was the old village store complex in the town center of Oripää. They had tried to develop the location with an architectural competition, but only gotten one entry, which didn’t even meet the requirements of the competition. The result:
They razed everything, including the cute hardware store. And so another never conquered location has become a part of history.