great pictures, both of you! what stands out about bub's are the not entirely empty bottles of liquor still sitting around some of the rooms. kinda brings a sense of life and even impending danger to the vile doomscape clearly only inhabitable by people on a variety of drugs, the rust and detritus on the floor being subconsciously mistaken for blood . . .

guana, I think you're right that a place being relatively well-known and legally accessible takes away something, but those are still really interesting pictures. they've got some cool overgrowth and the wall art is great. it's somehow better when the vegetation is taking over an area previously dominated by rigid, orthogonal architecture, like in a lot of the abandoned soviet or japanese places

edit wow I missed a couple posts, bbl

they just released the concept design for the the first section of the "reading viaduct park", tho not to the public. so far it does look pretty similar to the high line, but not as trendy and retaining more of the energy and feel of dilapidated industry. that section doesn't touch the part we're looking at, so hopefully we can get the people to snatch it up before it's claimed! we present to em on monday

I imagine one of the other places you're going to talk about is the Divine Lorraine, but what else ya got earl?  I love this urban wasteland stuff and I'd like to learn more about areas like this in Philly.  Except for north Philly of course, I KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW about it.  In fact I'm sure I can dig up some pictures of various abandoned houses in the area from when I lived there.  I might also have some pictures of a derelict warehouse on (or around) 6th and Jefferson that some friends and I checked out last year. 

yeah, it is! I haven't been in there myself, I don't really know how, but I was gonna put up some other people's pictures and some history. for the other places, I was gonna do a joint post of the building I live in on the border of Germantown, and the ruins of a house in the woods nearby (SALEM). there are other places I know of, but haven't been to and don't know much about. there used to be some cool stuff along ridge above girard, but that's, as you know, near some of the worst slums of the entire east coast, and they've been tearing down vacant buildings left and right there. also maybe the eastern state penitentiary, obviously that's a tourist destination but it's still really interesting/everyone should go there if they ever get a chance (steve buscemi narrates the tour)

throw up them pictures, I don't want to exclude any wasteland from getting its moment of glory itt

Is that top graffitti a bansky? I'm gonna buy me a bansky when I get home I think for my wall.

looks like it might be a dry dock mellytan, though it's hard to tell the size of those pools. nice pics. ruins are fine too.

me and my ~_GiRlFrIeNd_~ had our first date in an abandoned freezing works. it was massive and amazing but i didn't take any photos, whoops! sorry buddy.

well thanks for bragging about it anyway
 
really, who's idea was it? that sounds like a great first date. for those who don't know what freezing works is, I looked it up and it's apparently what they call a meat packing facility in NZ.


btw I updated the first post with a couple photos. also, they turned down our proposal for the viaduct because they don't believe in ambition or fund-raising to make something happen, just swooping in on other people's success for the least positive effect possible

oh here are some places we did go:

what happened to hide tags :-O

is NZ depopulating or something? the pictures are interesting on their own, but doubly so if there's some sort of back story to put em in perspective. the only other place I've heard of having abandoned subway stations and schools is japan, and that's either due to rural-urban migration, other economic factors, or radiation

what happened to hide tags :-O

the badmins are gathering up all the tags for themselves, what else is new?

These were scattered across the country. Brief backstory, the highschool used to be catholic boarding school. I think it may have been one of the first buildings to be built in that style, high gothic? New Zealand doesn't have a lot of stone buildings because of earthquakes. The school closed mid 80's and it's protected as a historic site. The attached chapel still gets used and the school has been the set of a few films and art shows. There was an area locked off that a guy was doing artworks out of toast in. It's not open to the public.

We took a scenic route somewhere and stumbled across the prison, basically a new one opened and the old one was closed. http://www.urbanexplorers.co.nz/waikune-prison.html

The railway line still gets used at the subway station and on top is a car park, it really doesn't take much space. It's more like a cave, under the centre of one of the larger cities. Trains don't travel through the centre of cities anymore really.

The orphanage had fire damage and was closed down, but it's a historic site as well so they can't tear it down. It belongs to a pasifika church that's attached, and they used to have art events in there until it was banned.

me and my ~_GiRlFrIeNd_~ had our first date in an abandoned freezing works. it was massive and amazing but i didn't take any photos, whoops! sorry buddy.

better put a ring on that finger...

It'd be cool if someone smart ripped off Silent Hill and made a movie in some of these places.

gonna be posting a new series of images soon!! here's this for now it's great

divine lorraine in philly image credit found here