Abandoned buildings, industrial sites, and forgotten spaces. Urban exploration photography and documentation of derelict locations, decay, and hidden urban archaeology. Discover the stories and history preserved in abandoned places.
Urban exploration peels back the city’s visible layer to reveal abandoned buildings, derelict factories, and forgotten spaces hiding urban history. Photography and documentation of decay, industrial sites, and architectural ruins—places that were once thriving but now stand abandoned.
Discover ghost towns, theme parks left to decay, Berlin’s urban exploration scene, and the stories these places preserve. Urban explorers document disappearing architecture and industrial heritage before demolition, capturing the layers of history that official records often miss. Explore the hidden geography that shapes how we understand urban evolution and what cities leave behind.
London’s Abandoned Tube Stations
As you maybe know, I’m currently in London and still searching for great urban things I haven’t seen or visited yet, like that crazy underground skatepark close to London Bridge station. Today I found a nice hint on one of my favourite blogs Ektopia: Abandoned tube stations in London!
There are apparently some interesting abandoned tube stations in the British capital. One of the least well-known or visited disused stations is St Mary’s in East London - Recently the BBC did a small tour inside the station! It looks rather old and less frequented by graffiti artists, what is really incomprehensibly for me…
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Out and About with Nelio & BUFFdiss
As a faithful reader, you may noticed that the Australian tape artist BUFFdiss is in Berlin for a few month and that I was several times on the run with him…
Yesterday, I met up with him and the famous French graffiti artist Nelio (Those of you, who already visited Lyon should know him!) to explore an abandoned warehouse in the south of Berlin. It was a great day - we had a lot of fun and took nice photos of rough walls and nice new artworks! Here are some of the shots I took…
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Urban Artcore Invites You...
…to have a relaxed open-air meet-up in Berlin-Kreuzberg this Friday, July 2nd, 7pm! It’s planned as a nice and interesting meet and greet of a group of old and new friends, followers, readers, art fans and party people. I’m sure there will be a lot of fun, sun, drinks and good mood.
To make the decision to join the party easier for you, there will be a beer for free for the first 20 people (without warranty), but don’t forget to bring along your own drinks - there will be no bar, only some shops around! Additionally, everyone will be able to grab some Urban Artcore Stickers.
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Wooster Collective in Berlin
A must for all urban art lovers and street art enthusiasts is the big Wooster Collective meet-up in Berlin this Saturday! As Marc and Sara Schiller mentioned, it will be a interesting meet and greet of “a terrific group of artists, designers, and art fans”…
Although I can’t imagine that anyone doesn’t know the New York-based Wooster Collective, here are some lines about them:
The Wooster Collective (Wooster is a street in the Soho section of New York City) was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. (Wooster Collective)
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Abandoned Place: Teufelsberg Berlin
It’s the third time, that I have PictureReport in the program. The first time I wrote about the filmmakers crew was last winter, when they published that beautiful urban winter atmosphere video. And then, four weeks ago I wrote about the first two parts of their abandoned places series.
This time, I write because they filmed another known abandoned place in Berlin: The NSA station Teufelsberg Berlin, which is empty since Americans and Britons left the listening station in 1991. The entire area is abandoned since 2000.
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Abandoned Places in Berlin
Five month ago, I wrote an article about a beautiful video, which shows the cold snow atmosphere in Berlin. These days are over now, and the filmmakers crew started another series about abandoned places in Berlin:
The first part of the series is about the famous “Eisfabrik”, an old and abandoned but great industrial building in the heart of Berlin, I visited with tape artist BUFFdiss some month ago…The second part is a beautiful documentary of the old “Bärenquell” brewery in the south-east of Berlin.
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Urban Art Core goes London?!
…is the next milestone in my life and the next level for Urban Art Core. Between August and November, I will have an internship in the great city of London and therefore a lot of work has to be done.
I have to buy a flight. I have to create a lot of “What to do in London”, “What to see in London” and “Who to meet in London” list. I have to clean my camera equipment. I have to set up my netbook. I have to, I have to, I have to,…
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It’s a Braw Bricht Muin-licht Nicht the Nicht!
Hi guys, I’m back from Scotland since yesterday! That means for you, that from now on there will be again new articles about graffiti, street and urban art as well as urban impressions from around the globe.
My trip to the old and beautiful city of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, was very exciting, although I could not visit the nice urban art spots, the guys from scottish graffiti had mentioned me, because I forgot the passwords for my webmail accounts in Berlin…bad luck.
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Urban Photobook: Pieces of Berlin
“Pieces of Berlin” is the name of a nice photobook about Berlin. On 90 pages, the book shows with 30 color photos some unconventional views of Berlin, the city of abandoned houses and street art, and therefore the real beauty and variety.
The book is composed of analog street photographs by Florian Reischauer and texts by Isobel Coquille and - because of the great success - actually available in its second edition.
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Adidas Urban Art Guide Hamburg
The Adidas Urban Art Guide is an iPhone application which makes it possible for you to find interesting street art spots. It’s like an interactive city art guide and started with a urban shoe rallye in Berlin one year ago. Back then, about 50 street artists, including Emess, Evol, Klub7, Pisa73 and Mymo, hijacked the release with their Dirty Dancing Sneaker Action. Now the service will also be available in Hamburg!
“The city is a gallery. The adidas Urban Art Guide is the catalog. When Urban Art entered the scene, art left the galleries. Their characters populate the whole urban landscape. Especially in a young and international city like Berlin they follows us at every turn like a second population.
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