From factories, mines, and nuclear power stations to space research
centers, Victorian English mill towns, and American gold rush
settlements, Abandoned Industrial Places examines the places history
left behind.
Once these industrial spaces were celebrated and thriving; now, they're
ghostly and forlorn. When times change and they're no longer needed,
power stations, gasworks, car plants, factories, and mine derricks are
often too large to destroy. So they linger, looming over the landscape,
haunting relics of the past. Ranging from Cuba's unfinished nuclear
power station to atomic test sites in England, from Nevada's silver
towns to a French coal-washing facility, from a sugar factory in
Belgrade to a whole mining island in Japan and, yes, Chernobyl,
Abandoned Industrial Places captures these imposing, often eerie,
structures. Some are magnificent pieces of architecture, others appear
like ragged pieces of piping out of science fiction, but each one tells
a fascinating story.
The abandoned places include:
NORTH AMERICA:
Hudson Body Plant, Detroit; Crystal Mill near Marble, Colorado; Michigan
Central Station, Detroit; Redstone Rocket Test Site, Huntsville,
Alabama; Don Valley Brickworks, Toronto, Canada
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA:
Santa Laura Nitrate works, Chile; Petermann Island, Antarctica; Hacienda
Yaxcopoil near Merida, Mexico (former hemp or henequen rope factory);
Leith Harbour Whaling Station, South Georgia; Illegal Mine Site,
Tambopata, Peru
EUROPE:
Excavator Factory, Voronezh, Russia; Glassworks, Haidemühl,
Brandenburg, Germany; Plumain Factory, New Aquitaine, France; Sugar
Factory, Belgrade, Serbia; Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:
Lead mine, Morocco; Kolmanskop mining town, Namibia Drilling Rig;
Vredehoek Quarry, South Africa
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC:
Iron and Steel Mill, Loudi, Hunan, China; Hashima, mining island, Japan;
Buran Transport, Baikonur, Kazakhstan;
Cockatoo Island Docks, Sydney, Australia
