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Disused Shopping Mall Transformed into a Co-Working Hub in China

We’ve seen abandoned malls and shopping centers transformed into some pretty cool things, including affordable micro housing and homeless shelters. In China, as a booming e-commerce market starts ...

Abandoned Spaces in London Temporarily Filled with Modular Plywood Interiors

A series of disused railway arches in London have become surprisingly cozy interior spaces with the addition of modular wooden systems that fit together like puzzles. Architecture firm Boano ...

Abandoned Grandeur: Documenting the Downfall of Luxurious Places

There's something about the contrast of opulent ornamentation and expensive materials with rot and deterioration that makes luxury resorts and mansions some of the most fascinating abandonments. ...

Underwater Hotel in a Formerly Abandoned Quarry Now Open to Guests

The concept renderings for this wildly unusual hotel design in an abandoned Chinese quarry debuted on the internet over a decade ago, and now the finished complex is welcoming guests. The ...

Vanishing Beauty: A Photographic Tour of Almost-Abandonments

There's something extra eerie about places that are not quite abandoned just yet, but edging closer and closer to a prolonged death process. Relics of another time, these architectural remnants ...

Abandonments from Above: Drone Photos of Spain’s Crumbling Architecture

For photographer Mark Redondo, the many abandoned developments littered throughout Spain aren’t just symbols of economic troubles, but a failure to learn from our mistakes. Even in the midst of ...

Requiem for Pianos: Dilapidated Instruments Photographed Among Ruins

Once standing as symbols of prosperity within the luxurious interiors of grand European villas, these broken pianos have played their last tunes, now rotting among ruins. Photographer Romain ...

Urban Explorers Scuba Dive Through an Abandoned Submerged Soviet Prison Camp

How eerie must it be to swim past submerged lamp posts, barbed wire and other remnants of an old Soviet prison while scuba diving in a former quarry? The setting is dangerous; visitors might ...

Secret Spaces: 12 Architectural Easter Eggs Hidden Under Our Noses

By now, most of us are aware of the abandoned, once-forgotten subway stations and other underground wonders hidden beneath the streets of cities around the world. There are even entire cities ...

Out of Gas: Abandoned Station Will Live its Golden Years as a Venue

A formerly abandoned gas station in London’s White City district may have outlived its usefulness in its original purpose, but it’s got a new, more relaxing job to do in the ‘hereafter.’ ...

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