This report is about a very nice place, one of my favorite abandoned factories in Beijing, located near a mountain in a suburban area. Nature slowly starts to grow back on the industrial structure. I will not give too many elements about this factory because I would like it to remain intact. It has a […]
How do you start 2016 when you love urban exploration? You look for abandoned places on January 1st. With Brïn and Gui, we decided to go check out abandoned subway stations, which turned out to be a failure. Urban explorers do not always find a way in an abandoned place, failing to enter is part […]
J’ai pour la première fois entendu parler de cette célèbre usine de Pékin en 2006, quand ce pilier de la production sidérurgique en Chine annonçait son transfert vers la province du Hebei pour améliorer la qualité de l’air de la ville en vue des Jeux Olympiques de 2008. Je commençais une enquête de terrain dans […]
When I first learned about Shougang, it was in 2006, when this famous steel plant was going to close down and be transfered in Hebei province. I was starting fieldwork in another industrial neighbourhood linked to a factory and a scholar told me to go check out Shougang and its amazing architecture, on the Western […]
