Badlands

Exploring the badlands of architecture: fringes of cities, abandoned sites and ruins of the past. Analogue 35mm camera only.

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LA confidential

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Ronchamp chapel before the storm, shot on Pentacon Six

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Unexpectedly amazing modernism shot in Galle (Sri Lanka) on my medium format Pentacon Six

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Church of Saint Adalbert of Prague in Częstochowa, Poland. After a lot of effort, the authorities gave permission for the construction of the church in the place of a garbage dump, under the circumstances of using the steel skeleton in the project.  © Kuba Snopek

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Please follow the blog architecturevii.tumblr.com, where we focus only on... concrete churches built in Poland after II World War. We post one structure per day!

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60mm film test – tested on a renovated skyscraper in Wroclaw

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The capitol is as awesome, as it was 2000 years ago #capitol #rome #architecture #ancient

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A burnt cur in London’s Robin Hood Gardens, June 2015

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The biggest construction of the 2000s in Poland: the Licheń church. Built in the middle of an empty field nearby Poznan, Licheń is one of the biggest worship objects in the world.

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Reward for those, who wake up early: a beautiful foggy morning. Mazury, Poland, May 2015

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A sailing boat parked in the fog in the Mazury lakes in Poland, May 2015

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An orthodox church, some 200km north from Moscow. This church, as well as thousands of others, have been standing like this since the times of the Revolution.

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A burning wooden house, some 200km north from Moscow. The area of northern Volga is so deserted that a big fire that would normally gather a huge audience has not attracted anyone.

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The library of the Russian Academy of Sciences during the fire, which destroyed the building on the 30/31st of January 2015. The building was designed by one of the most prominent Soviet architects Yakov Belopolski and opened in 1974.

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A random, strange structure covering the Spasskaya towet on the Red Square unexpectedly became a strong architectural statement in the landscape of Moscow

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A huge Tesla coil complex, hidden in the forests of the Moscow Region.

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A pair of Cuban dwellers in the post-Soviet microrayon of Pascaballo, Cuba. The microrayon was built next to a never-finished Atomic Power Plant built in Pasacaballo by the USSR.

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"The Motherland Calls" monument in Volgograd (former Stalingrad, former Tsaritsin)