Welcome to yet another familiar location. This here is the former co-operative store previously featured in 2022. The change from the previous year is, that now most of its windows are boarded shut. The municipality owns it and already tried to demolish it once. As it is marked as historically important, they didn’t get permissionContinue reading “There It Sits And Nobody Does Anything About It”
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I Have No Idea What It Is But It Is Beautiful
I meet a lot of people in the construction business because of my occupation. It is a well known secret in the branch, that I photograph abandoned buildings. Some people even tip me about places around Finland. I was visiting a bridge construction site, when I was told about a huge mansion in the centerContinue reading “I Have No Idea What It Is But It Is Beautiful”
The Heart Of Another Village Stopped Beating
Welcome to yet another small station village. This building here is the former co-operative store of the village. The building has been built in several phases. The end closest to the camera has originally been a wooden building from the early 20th century. It was enlarged for the first time in the late 1920’s. There’sContinue reading “The Heart Of Another Village Stopped Beating”
Suspicions Confirmed
Another very familiar location. This is now my fifth visit to the area having previously been here in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and now 2023. This is a former co-operative store probably designed by the legend of Finnish co-operative functionalism, Erkki Huttunen. During these years the building has gone from bad to worse. Broken windowsContinue reading “Suspicions Confirmed”
Charging Batteries Part II
The following location was pretty much next to the previous one. It was another old business building built in 1947. Again I wasn’t sure, if it was abandoned or not. It was just on the list of buildings to be demolished by the municipality. And according to the sign it was a resturant-café, a computerContinue reading “Charging Batteries Part II”
Charging Batteries Part I
Although I had found a hidden treasure in the old industrial village featured in the previous post, I had to leave quickly. It was starting to rain, my camera battery was starting to drain and I was hungry. I drove to the nearest town, went for a kebab and charged my battery. After a smallContinue reading “Charging Batteries Part I”
The Heart Of The New Village
After the second world war, a new village with a new steel factory was founded. Of course all the infrastructure with worker apartments, a school and business buildings was built. The steel factory became small, was closed and the village slowly started to die. This is the co-operative store and post office of the village.Continue reading “The Heart Of The New Village”
A Unique Location In A Sorry State
If you’ve read this blog for long enough, you already recognize what this is about. Yes, it’s a former co-operative store in a functionalistic style, designed by legendary architect Erkki Huttunen, who designed numerous similar buildings around the country. But there is one thing, which makes this location special. The wooden building to the leftContinue reading “A Unique Location In A Sorry State”
The Project Doesn’t Seem To Advance
My quest for entering several buildings originally spotted between 2020 and 2023 goes on. This time it’s a former business and apartment building. A detail plan allowing it to be demolished and replaced with a much larger block of flats had by now been in force for at least five years. Yet nothing much seemsContinue reading “The Project Doesn’t Seem To Advance”
Another Vanished Business Empire
I was again contacted by a friend. She told me, that there’s an abandoned hardware store in her small home village, in case I was interested. Of course I was interested. The village was so small, that it was a bit difficult to believe, that a hardware store had thrived there. Yet there it was.Continue reading “Another Vanished Business Empire”