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  • Inside An Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

    Inside An Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

    Image Cache: There’s always a very special thrill in visiting silent and deteriorating industrial places where hundreds of men and women worked amidst loud machines decades ago. It was not a different feeling taking these photos in the abandoned power plant building of a long gone fabric factory.


  • The New Budapest Metro Line Is An Awesome Psychedelic Trip

    The New Budapest Metro Line Is An Awesome Psychedelic Trip

    After ten years of extremely expensive, slow, and politically messed up construction work — it is a long and sad story of government corruption and incompetence — Budapest, the Hungarian capital, got its fourth metro line today. Despite its ill-fated genesis and controversial usefulness, the Metro 4 is an amazing engineering, architectural, and artistic achievement,…


  • Inside Budapest’s Forgotten Temple Of Sewage

    Inside Budapest’s Forgotten Temple Of Sewage

    Here at Gizmodo, we’re obsessed with beautiful old factories, captivating control rooms and fascinating scientific machinery. (Yes, that’s me.) A few weeks ago, I showed you the 99-year-old Kelenföld Power Plant, one of most beautiful industrial places on earth. This time, I’d like to show you another industrial pearl — in a rather hideous place.