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”
So This Is How You Spend Your Winter Holidays?
Some of you might have wondered, why there are so few photos taken during winter, even though it’s so long in Finland. I hate winters. It’s cold, it’s dark, its usually too dark for photography. Where I lived previously, the sun usually was properly up only between 11 am and 3 pm. Besides I don’tContinue reading “So This Is How You Spend Your Winter Holidays?”
Moving My Friends The Hard Way
When I moved to the capital region around one and a half years earlier, it became quite an adventure involving lots of sparkling wine and a children’s adventure park. Back then it was my friends driving me, this time around I was to be the chauffeur. My friend, whom I actually had moved to theContinue reading “Moving My Friends The Hard Way”
Was Denied Church Service, Opted To Sin Instead
The very same week I again travelled to another city to catch an abandonment, this time on my own. I had read news about a former chapel in the very center of the city of Lahti. It was used by the church until the mid-90’s when it became a daycare center. Abandoned in 2015 dueContinue reading “Was Denied Church Service, Opted To Sin Instead”
Winter Games & Ruins
The last days of the year and the decade were approaching. After Christmas I decided to take a trip to my childhood home town to see my god son. It was very wintry there, and he was really happy about it. I really am not a keen fan of snow and frost, but of courseContinue reading “Winter Games & Ruins”
Going, Going, Gone
Despite having moved to the capital region, I still visited my old home town often, several times a month. During the visits I was often busy meeting friends and working. I really didn’t have much time to wander around. As I had spent a good ten years in the city, I knew a lot ofContinue reading “Going, Going, Gone”
An Empty Castle
Towards the end of the year I visited Riga. It wasn’t my first time in the town, and I even managed to book a hotel room from the same side of town as on my previous visit around two years previously. As I had been here before, I knew all the bars, restaurants, museums andContinue reading “An Empty Castle”
The Lights Are On, But Hopefully There’s No One Home
A few days after they started demolishing the old school with the lights still on, I noticed that another well published demolition site had commenced. For years there had been plans to build a hotel in the marketplace of Oulu next to the market hall. The plans had been drawn, yet nothing had happened. ThereContinue reading “The Lights Are On, But Hopefully There’s No One Home”