Pragovka: The Story of Prague’s Abandoned Praga Car Factory
30 Oct 2020
Industrial decay in the City of a Hundred Spires.
Architecture
Sillamäe: Inside a Former Soviet Secret City in Estonia
31 Aug 2020
This sleepy Baltic town produced more than 100,000 tonnes of uranium for the Soviets.
The Salaspils Memorial: A Soviet Monument to Nazi Victims in Latvia
01 Apr 2020
"Beyond these gates the land groans."
Kharanaq: Iran’s 1000-Year-Old Mud-Brick Ghost Town
22 Mar 2020
An ancient citadel lies abandoned in the mountainous heart of Iran.
Skeletons of Utopia: The Story of Shumen’s Central City Square
19 Jun 2019
When Bulgarian architects high on Le Corbusier run out of money halfway through building utopia.
Laguna Vere: Tbilisi’s Abandoned Soviet-era Sports Complex
12 Nov 2017
Laguna Vere in Tbilisi, Georgia, was once the premier aquatic sports centre in the Caucasus.
Life in the High-Rise: My Brutalist Holiday in Belgrade’s Genex Tower
07 Nov 2017
A meditation on Brutalism, the occult & J. G. Ballard.
Novi Beograd: The Modernist Architecture of a Yugoslav Utopia
12 Oct 2017
The Modernist towers, high-rises and extraordinary Brutalist blocks of 'New Belgrade.'
Inside Naypyidaw: The Truth About Myanmar’s ‘Ghost City’ Capital
02 Jul 2017
A weekend in the bizarre new Burmese capital.
The Pyramid, Bunkers & Purple Concrete of Communist Albania
22 Jun 2017
An introduction to the totalitarian architecture of Tirana, Albania.
Midwinter Minsk: Soviet Socialist Modernism in Belarus
28 Apr 2017
Getting lost in the Soviet architecture of a Belarusian Winter Wonderland.
The Bad Place: Slime & Foreboding at the Grmeč Spomenpark in Bosnia
31 Mar 2017
The abandoned Yugoslav monument where toads go to die.
Postcards from Kupari: Visiting Croatia’s ‘Bay of Abandoned Hotels’
07 Mar 2017
One afternoon, five abandoned Yugoslav-era hotels.
