They have something special.
The smoke of the pipes and steam of cooling towers, monotonous color scheme of the factory buildings, stretching into the distance driveways and patterns on the walls of reinforced concrete: industrial landscape that has become part of our everyday life in recent decades, often associated with something dull, oppressive and depressive. But things are not so simple: if you look closely, in these pictures it is easy to see a certain beauty, charm and aesthetics.
Industrial zone in Bratsk (presumably, the plant Braccialetto)
Abandoned factory for the production of agricultural fertilizers in the municipality of Drapetsona, administrative district of East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Sunny day in Helsinki
Electric colors somewhere in the neighborhood of Liverpool
Plant for the production and refining of vegetable oil in South-East London (near Erith). Works with 1908.
When the metaphor of “the factory of clouds” with great success.
To set the location, alas, failed
TES Sprawl is one of the most powerful power stations of Greece, located in the same city (which is not very the same and lives up to its name: lives there a little more than 5 thousand people). The station operates on coal and lignite, which is mined in the mines nearby. Provides electricity to the South of the Greek mainland, and several archipelagos. Works since 1971
The city, which approximately 100% consists of industrial zones. Yokkaichi, mie Prefecture, Southeast Japan.
The Novosibirsk electrode plant, the village of Linevo, iskitimskiy rayon, Novosibirskaya oblast’.
Industrial zone in Kawasaki, Japan
Abandoned steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Stationed here belonged to the American steel company Bethlehem Steel (which existed in the period 1857-2003 years and ranked second in the metallurgical industry of the United States after U. S. Steel). In 2001 the company went bankrupt.
In 2007, the remains of the factory steel mill was sold to build in its place a casino. But there was a curiosity: the casino owner couldn’t find a 16000 tons of steel due to the shortage in the market. In 2009, the casino has opened and some buildings of the plant were destroyed, however, some things remained intact: for example, both blast furnace (1863 and 1867 buildings), as well as historical blower.
Port Talbot, Wales, one of Europe’s largest centers of ferrous metallurgy
Satelitarny plant in Duisburg — one of the largest river ports in the world. The city is still a major center of ferrous metallurgy, but its population is shrinking. All seven of the existing blast furnaces of the Ruhr are located in Duisburg.
Irkutsk ceramic factory
Steel mill, windmills and few tourists in the town of IJmuiden (one of the largest ports in the Netherlands). The first blast furnace was launched in 1924.
Voelklingen, Saarland, Germany. One of the oldest iron-enterprises and the largest steel mill in Europe. The factory I worked from 1873 to 1986, and then began to operate as an industrial Museum. Since 1994 a UNESCO world heritage site, becoming the world’s first industrial monument of international status.
Live from hell! But in fact it is again the Duisburg steel mill of Thyssenkrupp concern.
Chemical manufacturing in Redcar, North Yorkshire. Plant inaugurated by the Queen of great Britain in 1956. The Queen then was, incidentally, the same as now.
Fushun, Liaoning, China. Known in China as the “city of coal”. The first coal deposits were discovered here 2000 years ago, but mass production at Posolsky mines was started only in 1902 by the Russians for the supply of coal CER. Since that time, Fushun was developed as a major center of energy industry of China.
Steel plant in Redcar, North Yorkshire
The author writes about the following:
“Goodbye, old friend. I’m shooting for over 25 years and most of the time I was shooting a steel mill Redcar — as the Central character of my photographs or as backgrounds. Thus, it’s just one of his many images, but it is likely that the latter, which I will do at least to be people who will tear it down. It was just another shot, when I did it, but I guess now it has some historic value, as in later in the day announced the end of production.”
Misty morning in the industrial area of the Coke plant, Chelyabinsk
CHP in Middlesbrough, UK.
Teesside (region, which includes Middlesbrough and several counties in the surrounding area) has historically been an important center of heavy industry, primarily metallurgy and chemical industries, although they are gradually replaced by high-tech developments and research. A kind of British Ruhr.
Refinery American concern ConocoPhilips in the valley of the river Tees, Billingham, UK. Designer illumination clearly loved to play Space Invaders!
Sunset over the steel plant in Redcar, UK (photo 2014)
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Three circles of Omsk: cottages, power lines, factories.
Kiln limestone (1927-1929) This is what little is left of the steel plant Poldi in the Czech Republic (closed in the 1980-ies). In 2008, furnace received the status of a technical monument.
Tula, Kosogorsky metallurgical plant. The view from the Windows of commuter trains.
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