Welcome to yet another familiar location, the community college discovered in 2022. As you can see, the jungle around it has grown thicker since my last visit. And as you can see, it just started raining heavily. A detail. As it was raining, I just did a quick walkaround to see if there was aContinue reading “The Weather Didn’t Make It A Pleasure”
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It’s An Epidemic
For years now I’ve been complaining about old, 1930’s to 1950’s built school buildings being demolished around the country. Well, I’m going to keep on complaining, because here we go again. This is the former elementary school of Peipohja in Kokemäki, the very village, where I bought my dear summer car Alice. It was builtContinue reading “It’s An Epidemic”
Another School Gone To Waste
And so my journeys in the world of to be demolished municipal buildings continue. This time it was to be a former school closed just that very spring. Already it had been reported, that people had broken into the school, climbed to the roof, removed tiles and thrown them all around the yard. Built inContinue reading “Another School Gone To Waste”
Exploring With A Landlady Part II
So, my first location of the day. This is the former sailor school featured previously in photos from 2021, pretty much nothing had changed since then. It was coupled up in the same detail plan suggestion as the previously featured school, and despite again being considered regionally important, was also destined for demolition. Not forContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part II”
Exploring With A Landlady Part I
All the way until the previous spring I had still visited my old home town weekly, although I had moved away for almost four years ago. For the first few years I slept mainly on trains travelling back and forth, the pandemic also caused some loger times, during which I didn’t travel at all. ButContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part I”
A Private Assignment Part I
In mid-June that year my friends were throwing a party. They invited us over to celebrate their friendship. The surprise was, that they were getting engaged. This friend of mine had told me, that they had long wanted their talented painter friend to paint them nude. As the friend had unexpectedly decided to quit painting,Continue reading “A Private Assignment Part I”
Died At 35 Years Young Part II
Continuing the journey in trying to find an entrance to the school. At this point I was no longer very hopeful. More bike shelters here. And another abandoned building. This here is a former daycare center probably built and abandoned at the same time as the school. It also seemed tightly shut. I wasn’t hopeful,Continue reading “Died At 35 Years Young Part II”
Died At 35 Years Young Part I
Reading the newspapers is a great way of finding abandoned buildings. This time it was the traditional news: an abandoned school building has been badly vandalized. This time the building wasn’t even that old. It was built in 1985 and abandoned in 2020 because of air quality problems. Its use lasted just 35 years. TheContinue reading “Died At 35 Years Young Part I”
When Architecture Meets Greediness
For one reason or another, I’ve grown very fond of architect Martti Heikura’s buildings. Heikura, along with Uki Heikkinen has been a very influential figure in determining how the city of Oulu, my former home town looks like nowadays. Sadly, several of Heikura’s buildings have been featured in this blog previously. They include the PajarinkulmaContinue reading “When Architecture Meets Greediness”
So What Will Happen With It?
I spent a whole lot of time travelling the Åland islands and the Turku Archipelago. I didn’t expect to find anything, I didn’t find anything. My next stop was in a village all too familiar. Our family friend had lived in there back in the early 1990’s, and there was an old school building there,Continue reading “So What Will Happen With It?”