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Thats why its such a god damned crying shame whenever any old building gets torn down or abandoned. For the most part, nothing that would rival said old buildings architecture will be put back where it once stood. This applies to small podunk towns to large cities. Even poor people built aesthetically pleasing houses during the 19th century, now they live in crappy trailer homes and the rich live in McMansions. We have just somehow lost the capability to build beautiful things anymore. Of course we still do but they are just very rare which is unfortunate.
Theres a whole mess of abandoned buildings in Hot Springs, AR, just took some photos down there last weekend. Sorry, they arent skyscrapers but this thread is progressing into notable abandoned buildings for cities, not just scrapers, it will keep it going.
These incredible apartments have been abandoned for decades.
Theyre in pretty rough shape.
I was able to get onto the roof of one of em.
This has been abandoned since 2002 or so I was told.
All of the buildings in this picture are vacant but a developer is turning them all into apartments and its going to cost around 30 million.
This is also part of that redevelopment.
Theres a whole bunch of other buildings in Hot Springs that are vacant and or abandoned, the most notable one is an incredible art deco high rise downtown, its about 24 stories or so, Ill get a picture of it when I go back down there in a month or so, its really a shame.
Heres a picture of it from google earth though and its also been abandoned at least since the late 80s.
There seems to be a large number of abandoned art deco buildings in most cities, that pretty strange considering they are the most beautiful usually. I wonder why that is...?