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”
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I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part II
So we are finally inside. Moving on to the first apartment and its thrashed kitchen. The rooms were small, dull, dark and built with cheap materials. This was also the story with the bathrooms. The second room of the first apartment. This one was for two people to share. I started my career in theContinue reading “I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part II”
I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part I
The summer was well gone. I had transported my summer car to the summer storage, broken up with my summer date, had spent the Christmas and was feeling tired and miserable as usual during the winter. I had learned about an area of nine abandoned blocks of shared flats, which had sat abandoned since 2020,Continue reading “I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part I”
An Autumn Date Part VII
The night was already falling. After exploring the abandoned summer camp, we headed to the old dairy processing plant, which has been my biggest urbex dream since 2011. That was eleven years before this photograph. Despite having recently received large graffitis on the windows, all doors were shut. And the dream remains. The day IContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part VII”
An Autumn Date Part VI
Moving on to the final rooms of the accommodation building. This is what I call a mess. A tabloid from 2004. Meat. Another old fashioned cupboard. The following room. Vodka and snus. The following bedroom. A chair. Which has burned. The main building. The former basement. A look back towards the accommodation building. A closerContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part VI”
An Autumn Date Part V
Moving on to the accommodation rooms. The first one of them. The bedrooms seem a bit moldy. The rooms contained beautiful old cupboards. But there really was a lot of mold. A curtain. A cupboard with a couple of pillows. And another cupboard with a couple of canisters. Another room. It seems like there haveContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part V”
An Autumn Date Part IV
The classroom was a mess. The walls and roof were made of beautiful wood panels. More board games. Another mess. Small footprints and watercolors. The classroom seen from the front. Drawings made by the kids on the wall. The course of 2000. A grill wagon. A better look inside. The following building: the accommodation building.Continue reading “An Autumn Date Part IV”
An Autumn Date Part III
Moving on to the main building of the summer camp. Again it was all open doors. The roof had suffered quite a lot. Old wooden skis. The cups are waiting for drinks. The roof of the kitchen had collapsed. No shoes allowed. A lot of stuff like water bottles were left in the cupboards. TheContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part III”
An Autumn Date Part II
After the two first buildings it was time to explore the sauna. It was located by a lake. The weather was very calm and beautiful. There is a promise of a shower here. A rack for towels. There was indeed a shower. Most of the windows had been smashed. The sauna. The stove. There wereContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part II”
An Autumn Date Part I
In late September that year I received a Facebook message from a follower. They told me about a municipal summer camp in Southeastern Finland. It was a place, where kids were sent to summer camps for several, often two or three weeks. The place was operated by a nearby town between 1935 and 1988 andContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part I”