Office building (NO)

Pictures from a small abandoned office building in Oslo. The building is now demolished and no longer accessible.

Green room with sinks

Broken sink

Sink in green room

A piece of unknown thing

Detail shot of left-over object

A kitchen

Another kitchen

A phone from one of the offices

Destroyed office

Snow in the room

Changing room with shoes

A lamp on the floor

Sign on the door, “Keep the door closed”

A couple of reinforced cabinets and a safe

Broken glass

Leave nothing but footprints …

The exit

Bye, bye building

Small farm (NO)

A while ago I sat and searched for demolition objects on the web. Places to be demolished are often abandoned and they may be worth taking a look at. I found some locations via the municipality’s tender side for demolition jobs, but most had already been torn down according to aerial photos I looked at. But this little farm still stands.

The small farm consists of a small barn, a farmhouse and a garage building. The buildings are in poor condition and need rehabilitation. In the barn, there have been horses, poultry and other animals. There were a few medium sized fields around the place.

The farm at a distance

The barn 1

The barn 2

Inside the dark barn

Lots of horse shoes

Inside the barn 2

Door close-up

The exit

Almost a whole bike

Close-up of dirt …

Main building 1

Main building 2

Main building 3

The roof

Warehouses (NO)

Three abandoned warehouses are lined up somewhere in Oslo. I do not know the history of these buildings but they may have been warehouses for prints and advertising material. Walls and ceilings are either mossy or crushed and otherwise there is not much here except large empty room on the upper level.

Warning signs of asbestos are hanging on the buildings. Asbestos fibers from crushed materials in walls and ceiling are not smart to breathe in because of an increased risk of diseases, among them cancer. But one should be exposed over a longer time before it is directly harmful. Asbestos is a mineral with many good qualities that makes it work perfectly as insulation in houses among other things. It is insulated, non flammable and can withstand a lot. It became illegal to use asbestos as insulation in 1977, and all use was banned in 1985.

A plan for the construction of a large new warehouse facility here is proposed so these buildings will probably be torn down in nearest future.

Abandoned warehouses in a row

Warehouse

Facade of warehouse

The door with an opening

The basement was closed

Overgrown and decayed

Walls with asbestos plates

Asbestos warning sign

Inside on of the warehouses

Very empty

Not much to see really

Time to get out of the asbestos buildings

Garden center (NO)

Sometimes it’s interesting to see how fast something is battered, tagged down and destroyed when it is abandoned. This abandoned garden center has been vacant for about a year. It is a relatively fragile building with a lot of glass. The interior is full of goods like ornaments and plant fertilizer bags. The rear end is a living area with bedroom, office and bathroom.

The building is demolished and they are building new apartments on the site.

Exterior of the abandoned garden center

The door

Looking inside through broken glass

Lots of leftovers

Some more things

Broken sharp glass

Wheel barrow

Destroyed cash machine

Did they left in a hurry?

Fertilizer bags

More trashed stuff

Living quarters

Inside the office

House (NO)

For many years this house has stood empty next to the E6 towards Oslo. The sound of cars and trucks and the motorway bridge next to it makes it understandable that no one want to live here. The owner want to demolish it and build office buildings here. The problem is that it lies within a 100 meter limit the Public Roads Administration (Vegvesenet) has placed along the road. This limit will ensure better development of the road in the future and protect against noise and dust to the surrounding homes / offices.

The house has two floors plus attic and vandalism is extremely clear. There is almost no windows left and no doors (except for some stacked in a room). It is said to be the last residents who took the doors and windows. Inside there is rubbish on the floors but really not much exciting to see. An overturned water tank, Mickey Mouse wallpaper on a child’s room and some old LP covers.

The house is now demolished.

The house next to the highway

Exterior of abandoned house

Just some windows left

Entrance

Garden wall on the back

Interior – flipped water tank

Quite trashed and vandalized

Living room with sofa

Interior walls

Stair to the loft

Old record

Military Camp (NO)

North of Oslo is 200 acres of land with empty buildings. It is a former military camp behind the enclosure. A mix of residential buildings, offices and warehouses are abandoned.

The story about this place started around 1860 when a private gunpowder plant was acquired by the military. The production of gunpowder ceased in 1894. Between 1910 and 1940 the area was used for winter and summer training for military schools in the Oslo area. After that it was used as a rehearsal space for the car division. During the war, several large buildings were erected by the Germans for repairs and maintenance of anti-aircraft guns. In recent years there has been no military activity here.

The camp was purchased in 2007 by Oslo Municipality (Oslo Kommune). Nobody knows what the area will be used for, but the ideas are endless. Museums, forest center, cafe, education center, camp, etc.

Some want to convert it into a giant nursery for up to 600 children. The challenges are numerous. A new and better sewer system that doesn’t tamper with the a nearby water which supplies 80% of Oslo with fresh drinking water has to be built. A smart way to transport all the children to and from kindergarten each day has to be planned. Gas powered buses is proposed. Several of the buildings are listed and extensive work remains to renovate them.

Despite many initiatives, it is not likely there will be no future activity here. The future will show. Then the buildings stood empty and the increasing decay decreases the chances that the houses can ever be used again.

The main gate

Derelict parking lot with the location in the back

Workshop probably for maintenance and repair of anti-aircraft guns

Between the garage and the office building

Repair shop facade

Wide angle windows

Warehouse with large empty rooms with the light still on

Inside a warehouse

Stairs in the middle of the warehouse

The office building

Between some buildings

Fuses in a cabinet

Yellow house with two apartments

The garden needs a little work

Another yellow house

Bathroom with hot water tank

Bathroom with niiice interior

Hallway

A kitchen

Dusty stairs to second floor

Light switches

A pair of Norwegian skis placed in the kitchen

White creepy building

Around Østmarksetra (NO)

In Oslo there are still many ruins and traces of World War II. East of Oslo, under ‘Østmarksetra’, the Germans built one of Oslo’s largest bunkering facilities. It is 20 meters down the mountain and it is 70 meter long with two floors. Amenities such as a mini golf course and a cafe were made so the German soldiers could use this as a relaxation place. The bunker was also a hiding place for Reichskommissariat if the Allies invaded the country. More pictures from the inside can be seen on this forum, because I have not been there myself. You must be logged in to see the pictures.

Entrance to the mountain with Østmarksetra on top

Today the bunker is owned by the Sivilforsvaret (Civil Defence), but has been unused and empty the last 4-5 years.

‘Østmarksetra’ above the mountain halls was built already in 1926 as restaurant with great access to the forests around. It burned in 1927 but was rebuilt in 1928. In 1946 buildings were requisitioned by the German navy. Until the late 1960′s there was a sports lounge here. Today it is run as a restaurant and banquet rooms.

In the woods around there are various remnants of past activity here. A kind of bunker house with many concrete pillars around lies northwest of the place. The bunker has two rooms and was perhaps a communication bunker. The columns are remains from either demolished buildings or had the function as antenna foundations.

Concrete pillars for an antenna, a demolished building or something else

A rusty rake on the ground

Topside bunker hidden in the forrest

The door to the topside communication bunker

On a hill above there’s an eerie water tank build in stone. I do not know if this has something to do with the bunker complex. It has a hatch on top with a little rusty stair going down in the dark.

Hatch on top of the water tank

Rusty stairs all the way down

Entrance or pipe. Blocked further down.

Walls of stone reveals the old water tank

On the opposite side of the location is the main entrance to the mountain complex. Hidden slightly to the right of this door there is another entrance to an aggregate room. There is also an exterior built concrete structure with a red wooden house on top. This house is partially burned and collapsed.

The main entrance to the facility

Door to the aggregate room

I really wish is to see the inside of the bunker complex, but that has to be another time.

Red house on top og the third entrance to the bunker

The red house is partly collapsed and burned

Burnt stuff

Inside the house