Ruins can have second lives. Scroll through the gallery to see abandoned buildings dramatically reborn, starting with the Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, New York, completed 1908 and abandoned 1948, which spent the following decades unseen except by urban explorers and adventurous graffiti artists.
Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, NYC —
Ruins can have second lives. Scroll through the gallery to see abandoned buildings dramatically reborn, starting with the Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, New York, completed 1908 and abandoned 1948, which spent the following decades unseen except by urban explorers and adventurous graffiti artists.
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In 2021, the site will become the world's first underground park, named the Lowline. For two years between 2015 and 2017, the Lowline team tested technologies to bring sunlight underground and to grow plants in this laboratory in New York's Lower East Side
Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal, NYC —
In 2021, the site will become the world's first underground park, named the Lowline. For two years between 2015 and 2017, the Lowline team tested technologies to bring sunlight underground and to grow plants in this laboratory in New York's Lower East Side
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Italy's first airplane manufacturer Caproni built biplanes, commercial aircraft and military bombers at a factory just outside Milan for more than thirty years from 1915 until 1950
Caproni Factory, Milan —
Italy's first airplane manufacturer Caproni built biplanes, commercial aircraft and military bombers at a factory just outside Milan for more than thirty years from 1915 until 1950
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Since 2012, it has been reborn as the Gucci Hub, which now hosts events and fashion shows for the famous Italian fashion house.
Caproni Factory, Milan —
Since 2012, it has been reborn as the Gucci Hub, which now hosts events and fashion shows for the famous Italian fashion house.
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The Dominican Church in the Dutch city of Maastricht was built in 1294 but had been largely abandoned since the Napoleonic invasion of 1794.
Dominican Church, Maastricht, Netherlands —
The Dominican Church in the Dutch city of Maastricht was built in 1294 but had been largely abandoned since the Napoleonic invasion of 1794.
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In 2015, it was transformed into a bookstore called Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen.
Dominican Church, Maastricht, Netherlands —
In 2015, it was transformed into a bookstore called Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen.
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