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 Martino
   
Location: Almere - NL
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2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
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< on 6/27/2008 11:42 AM >
|  | | | Expo 2000 buildings
The first stop that we made on our way to Berlin / Leipzig was at the former world fair in Hannover; expo 2000.
Not all buildings are abandoned; some are in use as offices. But the Dutch building and the Lithuanian building are left to decay.
1 The Dutch Burger
This 40 meter high, 7 story building was designed by MVRDV architects in 1997. Each floor represented its own Dutch landscape.
7th floor – a Dutch dyke was created here, they even put up some windmills.
6th floor – a cinema.
5th floor – an oak forest
4th floor – a floor with giant containers that gave the impression that the trees at the floor above where growing from these.
3rd floor – a garden, representing the Dutch flower industry.
2nd floor – dunes (which now looks more like a cave environment).
1st floor – actually this is the basement where a café was set up (closed)
Visitors would go up in the elevator to the top of the building and then go down floor by floor using the staircases on the outside of the building.
2 Lithuania building
It was the first time Lithuania presented itself at a world fair. It’s a relatively small building, but an eye catcher non-the-less for its bright yellow color.
Visited: may 2008
With: Bartje (www.urban-travel.org)
THE DUTCH BURGER
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LITHUANIAN BUILDING
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check out the whole set here (including all the floors of The Dutch burger): http://www.flickr....5845333781/detail/
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dorian
 
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
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<Reply # 1 on 6/27/2008 12:08 PM >
| | | | It has always amazed me that we as a people will erect massive buildings for such short periods of use and simply leave them. But it also excites me, I love these. The forest floor is such an interesting space and your capture has a lot going on in it. Also, in the full set, the dunes are very interesting. Nice, thank you for sharing!
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NAN
   
Location: rochester NY
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<Reply # 2 on 6/27/2008 12:10 PM >
| | | | Dearest! These are great! These buildings are so wierd. It looks like you had a great time.
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cwestcivic5
Location: Michigan
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<Reply # 3 on 6/27/2008 12:33 PM >
| | | | wow your pics never fail to impress.
what kind of gear are you using on these? you do the 'almost desaturated' look very well but 6, 7, and 8 have amazing colors. i would love to see some more pics like this from you.
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telefunker
Location: Somewhere in Belgium
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<Reply # 4 on 6/27/2008 2:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by Martino
The first stop that we made on our way to Berlin...
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I can sense a great series of posts coming this way.
Great stuff, 6 & 7 are just mind-blowing.
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msgsudz
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
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| | | Re: by far the weirdest abandoned buildings i've done
<Reply # 5 on 6/27/2008 3:44 PM >
| | | | wow, your black & white shots always floor me, but your colour shots are equally as dynamic. explorations with you and bartje are a match made in heaven, as you're two of my favourite photographers on this website.
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: by far the weirdest abandoned buildings i've done
<Reply # 6 on 6/27/2008 4:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by cwestcivic5
wow your pics never fail to impress.
what kind of gear are you using on these? you do the 'almost desaturated' look very well but 6, 7, and 8 have amazing colors. i would love to see some more pics like this from you.
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thanks! I still only got my canon 20D and my 17-40 mm.
| I can sense a great series of posts coming this way. |
damn right!! we saw and find some amazing places! there are for sure more pic's coming up from this trip.
| wow, your black & white shots always floor me, but your colour shots are equally as dynamic. explorations with you and bartje are a match made in heaven, as you're two of my favourite photographers on this website. |
you're right we're a good match - but we decided that mostly on our drinking skills! hehehe  but seriously: we had a great time.
Funny story: In the hotel we where we got offered a room and people asked us quite a few times if we were sure about it. Sure we're sure! Then we saw the saw the room and we understood they didn't have a double room anymore and they offered us a single one. talking about a match eh? By then we knew why everybody was looking at us a bit weird. We took a single room each and we still don't know why they offered us one single room.
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Wolfheart
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 7 on 6/28/2008 4:06 PM >
| | | | Excellent set as always. You really should create book, yous art could work fine in book.
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
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<Reply # 8 on 6/28/2008 4:22 PM >
| | | | hey wolfheart! long time no see!
I am looking around to see what possibilities there are and i have already began with a first rough selection of photo's.
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Greg
Location: Canada
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How is this even 'exploration'? It's a loving house you've already been in you weirdo!
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<Reply # 9 on 6/28/2008 9:39 PM >
| | | | The structure doesn't look very old. Bad business plan from the get-go maybe? I have seen other Expo sites and the buildings have for the large part been reused for other things. The privately owned buildings from the Expo's housed the business and the publice ones were used by the city in some fashion, ect.
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nutekk
Location: Central NJ
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 10 on 6/29/2008 1:24 PM >
| | | | yea totally, photos such as these, would make an excellent book. always well done and i can't wait to see more! excellent !!!
cheers !
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
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<Reply # 11 on 6/30/2008 11:29 AM >
| | | | Posted by Greg
The structure doesn't look very old. Bad business plan from the get-go maybe? I have seen other Expo sites and the buildings have for the large part been reused for other things. The privately owned buildings from the Expo's housed the business and the publice ones were used by the city in some fashion, ect.
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Most of the buildings are re-used...except for these two. There are expo sites that are abandoned. Like the one in Sevilla, Spain.
From the start it was known that after expo 2000 the dutch burger was to be demolished. I don't know why they never did demolish it.
Thanks Nutekk!
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
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| | | | Re: by far the weirdest abandoned buildings i've done
<Reply # 12 on 6/30/2008 2:20 PM >
| | | | I saw these when I was looking at your Flickr. Great stuff.
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| | | | Re: by far the weirdest abandoned buildings i've done
<Reply # 13 on 6/30/2008 11:13 PM >
| | | | Wow, these buildings are awesome. I'm super jealous. Great shots!
EDIT: #1, 6, 7 & 9 are my favs.
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sYnOnYx
Location: Las Vegas , NV
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<Reply # 14 on 7/1/2008 5:46 AM >
| | | | wow the greens were awesome in color
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bouncewiggle
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: by far the weirdest abandoned buildings i've done
<Reply # 15 on 7/1/2008 8:03 AM >
| | | | i love the photos with the green! especially the flowers. =)
the area beneath the building is amazing. it looks otherwordly.
in a way it's such a shame that these odd buildings are just left to sit and rot... but i imagine they're fun to explore. lovely photos!
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ChaseofSpades
Location: Grand Nothing, Texas
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 16 on 7/3/2008 9:13 AM >
| | | | these are absolutely amazing. i would love to see a place like this. i...i...i don't even know what to say. Awesome.
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starberries
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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<Reply # 17 on 7/5/2008 2:51 AM >
| | | | Your shots are absolutely beautiful. Specifically #5&8; the colors and mood are gorgeous, and very retro/sci-fi-looking! hehe
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