{"id":92545,"date":"2019-05-12T02:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/12\/beauty-in-ruins-the-wonder-of-abandoned-buildings-a-photo-essay\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:23:18","slug":"beauty-in-ruins-the-wonder-of-abandoned-buildings-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=92545","title":{"rendered":"Beauty in ruins: the wonder of abandoned buildings \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created Lost Collective to document neglected and now rarely seen places that once played important roles in their communities. From a derelict power station in central Sydney to an elegantly decaying Japanese hotel, these sites still unite the people who made them matterIt was like hell on earth; everything coated in red dust and rust. The noise was immense, with steam and chemicals belching from all over \u2013 at one point I walked into a cloud of ammonia without a respirator. It was a massive nickel refinery and I was there to help shut it down.I\u2019d started my career as an apprentice fitter and turner in a hot and dirty workshop in the north Queensland city of Townsville. It was such a shit job \u2013 every day was stinking hot and we were working on heavy machinery smeared with grease, chemicals or both. But I wanted a trade to fall back on so felt compelled to stick it out. The nickel refinery was one of my first onsite jobs and one I\u2019ll never forget. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/may\/12\/beauty-in-ruins-the-wonder-of-abandoned-buildings-a-photo-essay\" target=\"_blank\">Beauty in ruins: the wonder of abandoned buildings \u2013 a photo essay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created Lost Collective to document neglected and now rarely seen places that once played important roles in their communities. From a derelict power station in central Sydney to an elegantly decaying Japanese hotel, these sites still unite the people who made them matterIt was like hell on earth; everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}