Wow, these look amazing! It's interesting to see how a bit of colour and artwork can bring even the most derelict and abandoned buildings to life. Too bad it's far, far away from me, but at least loads of people are enjoying it :-D
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They are! And these were only about one third of all the art that was there. Some of it was geniusly divided so that it was on several walls and continued out to the near trees. So that was impossible to get in to one photo.
Wow, that sounds pretty amazing! I'd so love to see that, but it's a shame that the building is set for demolition.
It is a shame. But then again if it wasn't, originally, the artists would never have had the chance to do pretty much anything they wanted to do there. Legally. And as many of the artists there are graffiti artists originally, I think it's the nature of graffiti to be covered, destroys destroyed or removed after a while.
Ah, that's true, I guess. It's an interesting concept for sure, and it's nice to see a bit of colour every now and then. Hopefully, we'll get to see more of them coming along :-D
Very nice to see some color, especially in Finland, where most people seem to think brown, grey and white is color enough. And in these kind of concrete blocks that started to be very popular in the 1950's and still that seems to be the only building type the city or the developers build because it's cheaper to built than beautiful curves or decorations.
It's always privy to make things cheap, I suppose. It's pretty interesting to learn about these things, and good to know that if buildings appear a bit too bland, there's always talented graffiti artists to liven it up a little bit :-D
Except in this case, most of the city councils opposed it at first. They saw it as scary art as the people making the art are scary. In their minds. :D
Now of course the city council is proud of what THEY (the council) achieved in the demolition house. There's a demolition art collective that for two years worked hard to make this happen.
But yes, it's nice that this was done and perhaps also works as an example what can be achieved and that graffiti artists are normal people. Not scary at all. :)