Gare Juste Lisch / Juste Lisch Railway Station / Juste Lisch 火车站

While spending a few days in France, I enjoyed going to famous abandoned places around where I live. During a train trip to an abandoned sanatorium in the suburbs, I saw this interesting building. It was a former train station from the 19th century1. This place is very famous: it is not any ordinary train station. This […]

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 […]