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[es]Péronnes coal washing plant
| Type | Aerial view | Country | Date | Status | Rating | |
 Factory | Here ! |  Belgium | 2005-06-01 | Reconverted | *** |
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Panoramic view of the rooftop. Click to zoom!
The Concrete Giant...
A huge concrete building in the middle of the country, surrounded by the slag heaps. Its construction was finished in 1954 with the help of the "generous" Marshall funds. Money that could have been used for something else, because the building was left in... 1959! Coal from the surrounding mines was sorted and washed here.
Building is completely empty, only holes on the floor reminds the huge machines that used to stand there.
Side façade.
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In the middle of the former industrial Belgium will be born among others: a professional center of artistic training, a store of the kingdom archives, and the collection of the Belgian geological core samples!
The cleaning up of this huge industrial waste land will still take a loooong time and cost something like 8 millions euro. Rescuing the local cultural industrial inheritance does not have a price...
This urban exploration is a real challenge for photography, because of the high contrasts and the back lightings everywhere. But this complex architecture is a real pleasure to explore...