Erik Twight
Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Early 2005 -1
My last uploaded image mentions some of what I wanted to say about this place. It is just astounding that such a huge and wonderfully designed structure has been left to rot like this. After decades of people doing whatever they wanted in there (from taking pictures pointless vandalism and violence... to looting whatever wasn't nailed down, to prying out everything that was)... finally, the placeis under careful watch by federal authorities, or at least it sure was in early 2005. Apparently, plans were made to implode this place, but alas, it's too sturdy to go that route.
Few buildings I have seen in North America (on-line or in pictures) are this impressive; the opulence in the construction, the combined elegance and durability... I don't know if one could re-create a building like this anymore. It is walking distance from downtown, and it's ridiculous that such abuilding can be simply abandoned as this one has. Of course there is serious abandonment in many American cities, and Detroit has surely suffered the most of any big American city, but the waste is really something to behold in person. That, and the fact that every single window has been long smashed out of here, with only a few broken pieces of glass stubbornly holding on in some frames.
Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Early 2005 -1
My last uploaded image mentions some of what I wanted to say about this place. It is just astounding that such a huge and wonderfully designed structure has been left to rot like this. After decades of people doing whatever they wanted in there (from taking pictures pointless vandalism and violence... to looting whatever wasn't nailed down, to prying out everything that was)... finally, the placeis under careful watch by federal authorities, or at least it sure was in early 2005. Apparently, plans were made to implode this place, but alas, it's too sturdy to go that route.
Few buildings I have seen in North America (on-line or in pictures) are this impressive; the opulence in the construction, the combined elegance and durability... I don't know if one could re-create a building like this anymore. It is walking distance from downtown, and it's ridiculous that such abuilding can be simply abandoned as this one has. Of course there is serious abandonment in many American cities, and Detroit has surely suffered the most of any big American city, but the waste is really something to behold in person. That, and the fact that every single window has been long smashed out of here, with only a few broken pieces of glass stubbornly holding on in some frames.