The Golden Factory / 黄金工厂

This report is about a very nice place, one of my favorite abandoned factories in Beijing, located near a mountain in a suburban area. Nature slowly starts to grow back on the industrial structure. I will not give too many elements about this factory because I would like it to remain intact. It has a […]

Post-industrial Shougang, Oct 2015

Shougang / 首钢

When I first learned about Shougang, it was in 2006, when this famous steel plant was going to close down and be transfered in Hebei province. I was starting fieldwork in another industrial neighbourhood linked to a factory and a scholar told me to go check out Shougang and its amazing architecture, on the Western […]