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Kraftwerk Plessa

your.email@example.com ( Andrew Kirby) — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Plessa power station in Lusatia, a lignite-fired plant from 1927 with vast machine halls and expressionist architecture, silent since 1992 and slowly giving way to time.

Teufelsberg

your.email@example.com ( Andrew Kirby) — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Berlin's Devil's Mountain, a hill built from wartime rubble and crowned by an abandoned Cold War listening station, now one of the largest open-air street art galleries in Europe.

Hubertusbad

your.email@example.com ( Andrew Kirby) — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A photographic exploration of Hubertusbad, a magnificent Art Deco bathhouse in Berlin's Lichtenberg district. Built in 1928 and closed in 1991, this architectural gem remains frozen in time, preserving nearly a century of social bathing history within its tiled walls.

Heilstätte Grabowsee

your.email@example.com ( Andrew Kirby) — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A tuberculosis sanatorium in the pine forest north of Berlin, founded in 1896, used as a Soviet military hospital until 1991, and now slowly crumbling among the trees.