Outbuildings

The skyway in the bottom of the picture is now gone.

The EPA has been doing work on and off over the past few years, digging up the foundations of the demolished steel mill to clean up the site.

I’ve written it before, but I like observing the way buildings change in terms of new windows, bricked up doors, and so on, and thinking of how their forms change to reflect the work inside of them.

This building had the rusty remains of a few mattresses, likely used in the 1940s when this site was last occupied.

Two of the remaining four towers in the projects. Throughout our time there we saw and heard squatters inside and chose not to go in. What do you call a smart choice made in the midst of a dumb choice? There should be a word for that.

Grain is taken from the bottom of the silos through a conveyor in a tunnel. These blowers keep the air in the tunnel fresh.

In the quality assurance labs there is a old safe.

Looking out of the boarded windows in the Great Western Sugar office.

Glowing observation windows–and someone forgot to lock a patient’s door…