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Abandoned factory Reclaimed

submitted by Gale Wallis

(bareboards2)
1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

Art

from Stranger blog: Yes, the people who own and live in this Barcelona property are stinking rich. Yes, the music for the video is horrible. But if you put those two things aside, you are left with something amazing: the renovation of the ruins of a cement factory.

The greatness of this project is that the decay of the factory (the way it deteriorated, the way nature adopted it) has been preserved. The best part of the project are were we see the unity of the old structure, nature's intrusion, and human reoccupation.

It's also meaningful that the old cement factory looks a lot like an old cathedral. Cement is the god/substance of the city. The city is all human. And a human is a god to a human (Spinoza put this way: Man is a god to man).

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wow, that's actually pretty cool. I don't care if the guy's rich. At least he took something old and ugly and turned it into something amazing. Good for him.

Here in my city there's an old grain mill with big silos. An old, not attractive building at all, and very close to the university. So the university bought the mill, and it has become a science museum, and it also has a few student residencies. Right now, they're actually making a new entrance for the museum, so buses can more easily drop visit groups without hindering the traffic flow.

It's pretty cool as well.

"It's also meaningful that the old cement factory looks a lot like an old cathedral. Cement is the god/substance of the city. The city is all human. And a human is a god to a human."

Argh, the pain.

Moving this video to bareboards2's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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