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The No.3 Blast Furnace at Shougang Iron and Steel, 2011.
A decade before Shougang Iron and Steel hosted Olympic sporting events, it was an immense decaying complex of blast furnaces, coke ovens, pipes and coal conveyors. While the 2008 Olympics brought the end of the manufacturing operations of Shougang Steel, the 2022 Olympics catalyzed its rebirth.
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Directly on a beach in Vietnam is an entire village presumably made up of Rông Houses manifested from the Central Highland of the country. Upon closer scrutiny, these are actually the villas of a failed beach resort.
Read MoreMacau is a real cyberpunk city due to it’s population density.
Read MoreFar inland in South Korea, this ship called the Phoenix was destroyed by fire but never rose again from the ashes.
Read MoreThis school never opened, but why are there so many books inside, and why does it show up in so many K-pop videos?
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At one time Thuy Tien Lake was a bit more mysterious and sensational. Accounts claimed the only way to find the park was by directions passed from one backpacker to another and tales spoke of starving crocodiles left to fend for themselves inside the park’s aquarium. Today the crumbling water park is listed clearly on Google Maps.
Read MoreThe most authentic sections of the Great Wall stand slowly decaying since their original construction hundreds of years before. These are far off the tourist routes and not serviced by roads, cable cars or tourist infrastructure.
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As major Chinese urban centers develop and environmental protection standards improve, tolerance for polluting industries. After 60 years of operation, this cafeteria was one of the few structures in the sprawling factory compound that had not yet been razed.
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Designed as a vanity project, a year after opening the Zhuhai Opera House still appeared unused and unfinished. The cultural and commercial spaces were nearly entirely vacant. Construction materials were piled up around the Opera House.
Read MoreThe plant reduced production over the next few years until it was finally closed in 2011. These pictures are taken later in 2011, many from the abandoned 碧霞元君庙 temple on an adjacent hill to the west of the Shougang site.
Read MoreA modeling shoot during the prime period of one of the largest abandoned steel plants in the world.
Read MoreThis might have been the last modeling shoot done at this theme park before it’s demolition.
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