Urban Abandonment and Decay (2023)
Regime Change This is the apartment build where I grew up, in the home city of Satu Mare, Romania. It was build in the 1960s in a style typical for that era. The mosaic added a bit of colour and was just next to the playground. This year (2023) I went back and I took a picture just when they covered the mosaic with what looks like an industrial gray stucco. This was done for the purpose of insulating the building, but what makes it more efficient will remove even the little interest that building had. It felt sad, both because of the nostalgia of old times and also because it looked that the new times are dull and boring. Freehold Apartments This picture is a portion of an apartment building built in 1970 initially as emergency shelter for the survivors of a flood. It was made of concrete slabs with minimum interest for aesthetics and comfort. This building was part of a new neighbourhood called "Solidaritatii." In the 1990s, after the communism collapsed, the people living...