02.03.2012 Abandoned Brewery

empty spaces.

There's an abandoned brewery just down the street from where I work. It's been "under construction" forever and has always been quiet. I got a text from my coworker the night before about this place. A friend was checking it out for a potential project and asked me if I wanted to tag along. "Yes!" I said, "Of course!" I didn't really know this place existed until now and the inside is was beautiful albeit desolate. 

There isn't much of a story, mostly photos of forlorn spaces unpreserved. This post industrial site belonged to a brewery that began in the 1880s. Now, it's just waiting to be remade into something new (possibly a loft or a shopping arcade). So it's kind of neat to be here in this place to acknowledge it before anything happens. 

Outside, there is a cottagey looking building which is actually a Polish "home" that was picked up and dropped here. There's another one like it in the city somewhere. I think it is some sort of theatre, and they have shows or something like that. I am not sure, but it won't stay here for long, so I hope I can go in before it leaves. The interesting structure on the right is a leftover part of an old GDR building. After the wall was taken down this was salvaged from a shelled out government building and placed here. 

"The rooftop collapsed here, and now we have a rooftop terrace!" he said brightly

crumbling ceiling. like snow

doors, extracted.

light! texture! peel!

a happy space between rooms

can you identify the car?

face!

1. tree.                                                                             2. dark, damp tunnels.

The underground basement used to be a night club. Every now and then they reopen it and have a giant party. Back then, this was where the brewery stashed and made their brew.

That's a real person.

We came upon this one room in the tunnel where we were told that once upon a time a person (the owner of the brewery?) had hidden himself down here and then killed himself. That's about enough to creep me out in a dank place like this, so I was ready to head up to sun-lit areas after that.

"How cool would it be to bring a boat in here?" not really pausing for a response, "And so I did!" he proudly exclaimed.

Leftover construction equipment. There was a movie filmed here. Couldn't tell you which it was.

the Soviets!

tee shirts!