Lets See Your Abandoned and Dilapidated Buildings / Ruins

Inphoto, you have some wonderful photos, but would it be possible to give us a little info on them please

I have written in a previous post that the building was supposed to house the Ministry of Labor in Athens after the end of the 2004 Olympic Games.
No one wanted to go the suburbs, then there was a corruption scandal with the government donating the building to a Monastery in return of a public lake owned (?) by the Monastery holding a title issued by a Byzantine Emperor around 900AD !!
The transaction was cancelled in Court so it was left abandoned and then got dilapidated from every saleable equipment.

It is very large building

Thank you for the explanation. It adds a lot of interest to the photo otherwise it's just another unfinished place

With my memory I have probably forgotten the previous post? Thank you.

Jonzjob wrote in post #19157081
Thank you for the explanation. It adds a lot of interest to the photo otherwise it's just another unfinished place

With my memory I have probably forgotten the previous post? Thank you.

My memory is as bad, but probably worse than yours John!

I've known about this for some short time, since @InPhoto's first posts
of this economically-slammed effort.
It's a saddening but interesting history of troubled economic hardships.

While it can't compare to architecturally-significant wonders produced
in decades past, it's just as significant in its grand scale of a project,
while exemplifying a grand demise of intended use and purpose.

It's a shameful thing to me that such places, old and new, are merely forgotten
and destroyed, instead of being rehabilitated.
There's an enormous amount of history, notwithstanding architectural importance,
which accompanies many historically-designated sites around the world for protecetion,
but are largely forgotten by the world.

SkedAddled wrote in post #19157187
I've known about this for some short time, since @InPhoto's first posts
of this economically-slammed effort.
It's a saddening but interesting history of troubled economic hardships.

While it can't compare to architecturally-significant wonders produced
in decades past, it's just as significant in its grand scale of a project,
while exemplifying a grand demise of intended use and purpose.

It's a shameful thing to me that such places, old and new, are merely forgotten
and destroyed, instead of being rehabilitated.
There's an enormous amount of history, notwithstanding architectural importance,
which accompanies many historically-designated sites around the world for protecetion,
but are largely forgotten by the world.

agree, plus the oft absolute waste of resources.

I do a lot of planning applications and one has to plan for longevity, all the while buildings 25 years old are past their use by date and the excavators move in and smash all and put into landfill.
it was ironic as one recent application was with a council who had a perfectly good, 30 year brick building that was dropped to the ground to make way for new offices.

Suzhou, China
This once grand home is likely going to be replaced by hi-rise apartments or industry.

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Mayer, Arizona
I need to get a lens shade, too.

Suzhou, China

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Capn Jack wrote in post #19166294
Suzhou, China

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Capn,

You sure get to travel the entire Globe!!!
Has there been any place you have not been to you would like to go to?

Inspeqtor wrote in post #19166328
Capn,

You sure get to travel the entire Globe!!!
Has there been any place you have not been to you would like to go to?

I'm lucky that my work takes me all over the place, and I get to see things outside of the usual tourist spots.
I've yet to set foot in the African continent, and the Mideast. There's a lot of places in North America, Asia, and Europe I haven't been to, and I'm grateful other people on PotN share their photographs.

Any vacancies for an old git where you work Jack