The final location of the day was this beautiful, functionalistic old co-operative store designed by architect Erkki Huttunen. I had already discovered it the previous autumn, but back then there was no way in. As you can see, there now is a gap between the fence and the broken window. But let’s first see whatContinue reading “Driving A Lot But Getting Nowhere Part IV”
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Driving A Lot But Getting Nowhere Part I
As May was heading towards warmer nights, we decided to go on a weekend tour with one of my friends, whom I had met during my years at the university. We hadn’t seen eachother in ages until we decided to have a weekend roadtrip back in 2022. Back then we successfully explored this sawmill workers’Continue reading “Driving A Lot But Getting Nowhere Part I”
Chasing News Part IV
The final location of the day was already old news. It was the seaside villa, which I had visited and tried to enter for the first time back in 2021. I hadn’t been lucky so far. The garden behind the house was as it used to be. There was still a path running through it.Continue reading “Chasing News Part IV”
Chasing News Part II
The following location, again familiar from the news. This here is the former main building of a farm built in 1932. It was last rented out to a group of artists until a very familiar story happened. The city bought the building, evicted the tenants and decided to demolish it. Local activists made initiatives toContinue reading “Chasing News Part II”
Chasing News Part I
It was that time of the year again. I had read news of city planning all winter, and was ready to go and see some locations, which were destined for demolition and replacement with larger, modern and more efficient buildings. This is an old one family house from 1930. According to the detail plan documents,Continue reading “Chasing News 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”
My Summer Car Is Really Made Of All These Things, Season 4
The first of May was approaching, and that only meant one thing. It was time to agree, when I would get my summer car back from its winter storage. For the first time ever I would spend two consecutive summers driving the same car. Quite a feat, as my summer cars have always been fromContinue reading “My Summer Car Is Really Made Of All These Things, Season 4”
Greeting My Godson Part III
The following location was completely new for me despite having grown up and lived most of my childhood just some kilometers from it. And I found it thanks to my friend and I getting a bit lost in translation. My family spoke Finnish, but I went to school in Swedish all the way from kindergartenContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part III”
Greeting My Godson Part I
Like every Easter I travelled back to the town I was born in to spend some quality time with my godson. It’s already a tradition. And an equal tradition is, that during one of the days I and the godson’s father escape somewhere to do urban exploration. Here we are just a few hundred metersContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part I”