razorshapes:

Sven Fennema

Sadness and Silence (2012)

This series shall tell about a tragic chapter in the history of italy, and actually of the rest of the world, too. It’s a series about an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is closed and abandoned since decades now, but it could stand for many others with the same history. Those were terrible places, the patients were imprisoned, mostly for all their lifes, around 70% against their will. They were treated in terrible ways, without any human rights - Not only people who really had mental problems, but also hobos or prostitutes, everybody who did not fit into the society. The bad situation was reality for a very long time, till the big antipsychiatric reformation started in the late 60s and minister Tommasini stood for the first rights of the patients. Finally in the late 70s Franco Basaglia did a hard fight for the patient rights until finally these institutes were closed down and the people could live more free again, treated as humans, not as animals.

staceythinx:

The Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel in the Czech Republic decorated with the bones of around 70,000 people. To see more images of this macabre site and to learn about its origin, check out this great Kuriositas gallery.

acrylicalchemy:

I Gave You Everything (Until I Was Nothing)

Acrylic on Panel

Michael Carini

staceythinx:

Vegetation overtakes an abandoned building complex in the Jhongjheng District of Badouzi, Taiwan. Photos by Flickr user Cock_a_doodle_do. 

designismymuse:

MAD architects: Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada (images, google)

Local Toronto residents have nicknamed the tower, “Marilyn Monroe”.

moshita:

Reinterpretation of a Michelangelo’s Pietà

Jan Fibre

(Source: moshita)

gaksdesigns:

 Kansas City Public Library, Missouri. The building was designed by Dimensional Innovations. Local residents selected the titles of the books that are displayed on the bookshelf.

(via mandolinaes)