Urban Exploration

There is more to urban exploration than taking a walk in the city.

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Ruins Meets Modern

My favorite style of design is when the very old meets the new. It’s like the industrial lofts in Downtown LA that still maintain some of the classical building elements.

Organica Arquitectura in Lisbon took a ruined stone house in Portugal and integrated a brand new modern house. The combination of the old and new couldn’t be more perfect.

I feel that it’s important to maintain older beautiful structures and restore them when possible. It maintains the history and gives a new building so much personality. This is my idea of perfect design.

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Ruins Meets Modern «

My favorite style of design is when the very old meets the new. It’s like the industrial lofts in Downtown LA that still maintain some of the classical building elements.

Organica Arquitectura in Lisbon took a ruined stone house in Portugal and integrated a brand new modern house. The combination of the old and new couldn’t be more perfect.

I feel that it’s important to maintain older beautiful structures and restore them when possible. It maintains the history and gives a new building so much personality. This is my idea of perfect design.

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Old Buildings are not Ours

Lovely quote. I posted it to the Ontario Rural Ruins group on Flickr too.

Old buildings are not ours. They belong, partly to those who built them, and partly to the generations of Mankind who are to follow us. The dead still have their right in them: that which they labored for…we have no right to obliterate. What we ourselves have built, we are at liberty to throw down. But what other men gave their strength, and wealth, and life to accomplish, their right over it does not pass away with their death. – John Ruskin

Modern Church Abandoned in Oregon

The Abandoned LEC – A blog that started to be about an abandoned set of buildings in Oregon. Another blog, LEC Then and Now, has photos of rural exploration, set up as then and now posts.

This is a history of the building from The Abandoned LEC:

I am dedicating this blog to The Abandoned, a huge complex of buildings which once housed a mega church in rural Wilsonville, Oregon.

The Callahan Center was originally built by the State of Oregon as a rehabilitation center for people recovering from injuries on the job.

The building was eventually bought by a church called the Living Enrichment Center. When the church folded amidst financial scandal, it was abandoned.

It has stood empty for many years. Over that span it has been vandalized and looted.

Yet the beauty of its rare architecture still shines through the shambles of abuse and disrepair.

She also has a blog, Random Trash.

Haunted or Not?

This  was posted on Facebook as a Halloween thing, something meant to be spooky, creepy, etc. I never see the old houses that way. To me they look sad, lost, a little mysterious and a stepping stone to our history, our identity. I feel bad for the houses when people think they are haunted or creepy. It’s like someone seeing your Grandmother and thinking she is ugly. I guess I do give the houses feelings, even though they are not living things, exactly. People name boats, give them a personality why don’t more houses and cars get names too? What would you name this house, in the picture above? What would you name your own home, whether it’s a house or part of a building that you live in?