Wurlitzer 3: Reads from Nog

History of Orford Ness

Bannerman's Castle

Bannerman's Castle is an abandoned milary surplus warehouse on the Hudson River 50 miles north of New York City and easily spotted from the commuter train from Poughkeepsie. Like a future ruin of West Point, also to be seen on this route.

BLDGBLOG: Bannerman's Island
Shaun O'Boyle
Bannerman Castle Trust

Hashima Island

Article in Cabinet magazine.
'Battleship Island' from Vice magazine.

Junktopia (1981)

Emily Richardson



Emily Richardson, UK: “Petrolia” (Still), 16mm film, 2005

• Excerpt of Memo Mori on Youtube
• Emily Richardson website
• Richardson's Cobra Mist [on Orford Ness]

Sophie Ristelhueber

Sophie Ristelhueber from Laure Vermeersch on Vimeo.

Bombay Beach (2012)

Detropia (2012)

Campbell's Factory Demolition

Must be the time of the season for getting rid of iconic East Anglian landmarks.

The empty Campbell’s factory in King's Lynn is currently being demolished with its iconic tower due to be taken down next month to make way for a business complex including a new Tesco Extra store.

• Nothing To See Here: Campbell's Tower, King's Lynn
• Demolition starts at former Campbell’s food factory in King’s Lynn

Paleocontact

Komar & Melamid, Scenes from the Future (1985)

Guggenheim

Museum of Modern Art

Cyprien Gaillard, Dunepark (2009)

Detroit Ruin of a City

Detroit, Ruin of a City clip from Michael Chanan on Vimeo.

Detroit: Making it Better for You (2000)

Detroit: Making It Better for You from Kyong Park on Vimeo.

Text from Rethinking Marxism 15: 3, 404-5:

A project of International Center for Urban Ecology. Directed by Kyong Park. Composed, edited and narrated by Joshua Pearson [9:25min] 2000.

Detroit: Making It Better for You is a 2-channel video, showing a gritty tapestry of images on the destruction of Detroit, the city of the war between the sustainability of the local community against the greed of the global economy. Through its “driveby-shooting” technique—emblematic to the mythology of Detroit as the “Motor City”—the video offers street level views of the urban clashes between the inner city emptiness and suburban bliss.

Robinson in Ruins (2010)

• Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian
• Brian Dillon's piece on Keiller, also from The Guardian
• Spotlight | Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, UK), Cinema Scope
• 'The Future of Landscape: Patrick Keiller,' interview with Andrew Stevens in 3AM
• Farihah Zaman, 'Home Fires,' Reverse Shot

Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit (2010)

Tower Dance Club

Apparently soon to be converted into a boxing club, the Tower Dancing Club on Riverside Road in Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, stands as possibly the most implausibly sited dance club ever, situated among industrial workshops and overlooking the business end of the River Yare just as it reaches the North Sea.

Luckily, recent plans to develop Riverside Road seem to have come to nothing (see this site for comments on the proposed development) and the Friends of Riverside Road appear to be doing a good job sticking up for the area. Other structures like the 'dolphin' jetties and the lifeboat house might have more heritage appeal but an abandoned postwar dance club lost among the welding yards is a ready made winner.

Andrew Freeman

(Manzanar) Architectural Double.

The buildings at the Japanese American WWII internment camp at Manzanar were relocated and reused after the war, effectively dismantling the material evidence of the camp's existence. Between 2001 and 2004 Andrew Freeman tracked the buildings down and photographed them.

#11.4.01 - Mount Whitney Rifle Club, Lone Pine, California.

N 36°36.156’, W118°03.749’

Gateshead Trinity Square Car Park

Thompson of Prudhoe have got the job of demolishing this beast.

Thompson promise time-lapse footage of the demolition. The video of the Newcastle library demolition can be seen here. The new library is shiny but the old one was resplendently 'fuck off.' As Owen Hatherley points out in The Guardian, the car park is making way for a Tesco store with student flats on top. There's a form of beligerence in that, too, but it's nowhere near as bracing as stacked concrete parking spaces.