“Unfinished building” is like a scab that occasionally itchy, maybe some people like its run-down, but more people are waiting for its salvation . This article from the micro-channel public number: City Telescope (ID: onecity1000), Author: King moonlight
In an unfinished building, lunatic beggars gathered there.
Lonely ghosts and a bunch of hobos.
The owner of the building jumped from above twenty years ago.
A businessman becomes a beggar and hides in the ruined building.
——Wu Tiaoren “Unfinished Building”
Unfinished buildings, a place where every city must have chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard it.
In fact, this is not right, even from the perspective of passersby. On the uncovered ceiling in the unfinished building, a random drop of ash can also turn into a mountain.
On July 12, an unfinished building worth 200 million yuan in Dushan County, Guizhou Province, caused a huge debt of 40 billion yuan. On July 16, 30 households in Kunming, Yunnan, lived in a six-year-out community without water, electricity, and windowpanes.
No one can tell how many untreated dark scars are hidden under the glamorous face of the city, and beyond the psychedelic unpredictability of urban legends, how many dreams of forced silence are buried.
Those buildings are like a labyrinth frozen by time, bringing developers, rights defenders, and explorers into unknown places.
What building is “unfinished”?
Those buildings that eventually stagnated either had too high a prelude, leading to weak stamina; or the market positioning was inaccurate and the prospects were bleak. Countless real estates that have been put on the market under various guise have been stranded due to various reasons, the capital chain has been broken, developers have avoided seeing them, leaving a concrete skeleton empty.
They always applaud and thunder when they enter the arena, but they are silent when they escape. It may be like a youth movie, thinking that they can see you without saying goodbye. As for how long to wait, it depends on the writer’s mood.
Since the 21st century, skyscrapers have become the business card of every city, and the height of buildings has become a contest on the bright side. It is a pity that Shenyang Baoneng, Tianjin 117, Chengdu Greenland, Wuhan Greenland, these famous domestic super high-rise projects, were once in a mess. Among them, the story of Tianjin 117 is the most resounding and tortuous.
▴Goldin Finance 117 building. Video from @京津冀新闻速送
In 2008, Goldin Group Chairman Pan Sutong switched from the communications industry to real estate, and planned to spend 70 billion to build a high-end property “Xin Jingjin Gaoyin World” in Tianjin, including a Goldin Financial 117 building with a structural height of 596.5 Meters, 16.5 meters higher than the structural height of the Shanghai Tower, it is the tallest building under construction in China.
In September 2015, the 117 building completed the topping of the main structure, and supposedly it should not be far from the handover building, and it was a blessing. However, in the anticipation of people day by day, it suddenly pressed the still button.
In the past five years, the glass exterior wall of 117 building has not been able to cover the top of the building. The construction site has been isolated, but the busy scene of workers is not visible. On one side is a super high-rise shell that is incompatible with the surroundings, and on the other side is a large exposed reinforced concrete wall. The 117 building has suddenly become a huge building of suspense.
▴The satellite image of the area where Tianjin 117 Building is located. It is one of the few remaining unfinished buildings in the area
High buildings, hot chips in the capital game, top earning and top payouts are all overnight. Relatively speaking, the abandoned Nanjing International Painters Village is more mysterious.
Nanjing International Painters Village, known as “Asia’s Largest Wall Painting World”, is located in Xiongzhou Street, Liuhe District, with hundreds of three-story buildings covering 300,000 square meters. It also has a more official name-“Jasmine Jiangsu Cultural Industry Expo Park”.
This was originally a Nanjing International Chemical Trade City, but as a result, the one-billion-dollar project was unfinished, and the rights defenders were angry and condemned. In 2011, art replaced chemical industry, and Nanjing International Painters Village was newly completed. The development zone has invited more than 100 artists from China, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to settle in in an effort to create a landmark art district. The exterior walls of every small building in the park are covered with art wall paintings.
▴A corner of Nanjing International Painters Village
Nowadays, this place has fallen for the second time, and the painters regarded as the core soft power are scattered one after another. The colorful walls with great visual impact set off the desolate and barren scene around, and the sense of coldness exudes forced passers-by to chill.
The sporadic tea shops, small clinics, and garbage dumps on the roadside struggle to show the life of the park. Over the past ten years, this land has sought transformation several times, but failed to save itself.
▴The large cage in front of Nanjing International Painters Village. Picture source @南京头条
The vain attempt to save the economy with art eventually created an absurd reality. And some projects that came rushing for money have inadvertently becomeDecadent “artwork”.
In the northern corner of the North China Plain, no one in the photography circle knows that there is an unfinished real estate called “Xiangyun International” in Shijiazhuang. It has European Baroque style buildings, and with the sense of desolation, it is an industrial blockbuster.
▴Shijiazhuang Xiangyun International. Photo source Weibo netizen @希文198709
But for the owners of Xiangyun International, this picture is not beautiful at all.
Auspicious Clouds International, opened in 2012, covers an area of 1.2 million square meters, equivalent to 4 Nanjing International Painters Village, and claims to be built as a window of Shijiazhuang city. But just two years later, the developer Federal Group had a credit crisis, the company’s capital chain was broken, and the building was unfinished.
On July 31, 2019, a netizen sent a message to Xu Qin, governor of Hebei Province, on the message board of the leaders of People’s Daily Online. The topic was: “Auspicious Clouds International-A Place Where Youth Dreams Are Broken.”
▴People’s Daily Online Leaders’ Message Board Screenshot
He stated that he had spent money to buy a house, but was unable to accept it for a long time, so he could only live in a rental house with his partner. There are more than 30,000 people who are in a similar situation with him. Three months later, Shijiazhuang’s official reply: “Actively promote the reorganization of the project.”
In June 2020, there is a turnaround, and there are car ownersReceived a written notice from Xiangyun International Project Department: “Please drive away as soon as possible to provide us with a site for construction.”
▴The banner of Xiangyun International’s external wall. Picture source network
Before Xiangyun International officially restarted construction, many netizens rushed to “check in”. This operation is also called “unfinished adventure.”
Fans who are enthusiastic about this are used to running around these lost zones in the steel forest, seeking excitement and beauty.
“Adventure Aesthetics” in the unfinished building
Urban exploration originated from the human bone cave in Paris, France. In modern society, it has more space for extension. The adventure of unfinished buildings is one of the branch activities.
Da Mai, the organizer of the Jinan City Expedition, wrote this sentence on Douban: “Compared with those glorious and vibrant scenery, we love your tortured face more.” This is Duras. Rewriting of famous sentences in the book “Lover”.
▴The stairs of the unfinished building of Xiamen Internet celebrity. Picture source network
For the unprofessional enthusiasts, looking for the other side of the prosperous, taking a group of ruins photo, is their tripthe goal of.
There is an unfinished building near the site of the Baishi Fortress on Huandao Road, Xiamen, which is one of the most popular “net celebrity locations”. The past is obscured, and there is no future. There is not even a real name for the building. People are used to calling it “Xiamen Santorini” and “Low-profile Stairway to Heaven”.
But if there are no explorers of the unfinished building, it may always be an ordinary ruin.
▴Xiamen Internet celebrities are unfinished. Picture source station B@小逼宿
With the popularity of exploration aesthetics, this unfinished building has been sealed off several times. According to the enthusiastic introduction of the local taxi driver, this building was left behind by Lai Changxing in the Yuanhua case, and there has been no takeover plan for more than ten years.
Later it became an online celebrity check-in point. Workers who hadn’t been paid before sent someone to stay there and asked tourists for tickets. When people are young, 30 yuan an hour, and 60 yuan an hour during peak seasons. The exact amount depends on the mood of the uncle.
Nowadays, the takeover of this seascape building is still a mystery, but it is no longer so easy to enter rashly with the blockage of cameras and enclosures.
▴Xiamen’s unfinished buildings are enclosed. Picture source@智拳育
There are also “rules” among urban explorers, and decent adventure activities need to follow the “four nos” principle: do not destroy buildingsThe original appearance; does not break into the military restricted zone; does not leave any rubbish; does not put yourself in a dangerous situation. It’s just that there are still some people who don’t follow the rules in this circle.
If the unfinished building in Xiamen is the representative place of the dream series, and the most attractive thing is the sea view where you can take pictures. Then Chengdu Huaxi Puji Hospital is a dark-style adventure land. Explorers looking for a thrilling atmosphere and exciting experience love it more.
For more than ten years, this hospital has always only had outpatient clinics, but the inpatient building was covered with dust. The ambulance with broken windows, the courtyard wall covered with black graffiti, the platform without handrails, every corner reveals an aura of dilapidation and danger.
▴Photographers in the Xiaohongshu community check in at Chengdu Huaxi Puji Hospital
Similarly, an abandoned hospital near Qingtaishan Road in Longquanyi District of Chengdu has also been described as a “terror resort.”
Two years ago, rumors about this hospital suddenly began to spread on the Internet. For a time, public opinion was heated, and the local media sent multiple reports and visits. Every night, the screams of the explorers made the more than 20 families in the courtyard unbearable.
▴Sichuan Online Reporter Visiting video
However,In these abandoned buildings, no supernatural phenomena were finally confirmed, and only normal humans with needles and smoke bombs to pose for photography frequently appeared.
The management has also issued many appeals that the wall is in disrepair for a long time, climbing and framing are likely to cause dangerous accidents, and the spreading of rumors “ghost stories” will affect the normal life of the left-behind residents. I hope everyone will treat it rationally.
Where is the unfinished building?
Abandoned and unfinished buildings have not been followed up for a long time, not only a waste of urban resources, but also easy to cause safety hazards. But whether they should be blasted or rebuilt, they often require a long decision and processing process.
Hainan’s handling of unfinished buildings is a very symbolic memory of the times. In the early 1990s, Hainan, which accounted for 0.6% of the country’s population, left behind 10% of the country’s vacant commercial houses. More than 600 unfinished buildings once became the heart of the city. It took Hainan eight years to completely digest this huge real estate bubble, and the Hainan Provincial Office for Disposal of the Backlog of Real Estate was also cancelled in 2007.
But there are also many unfinished buildings who choose to use blasting to end their vacant life. In Jia Zhangke’s movie “The Good Man in the Three Gorges”, a weird monument with the character “Hua” was transformed into a “rocket” by special effects and rose into the air. In the real world, this monument became an unfinished building and was demolished by blasting in November 2009.
▴”The Good Man in Three Gorges” stills
On April 20 this year, four high-rise and unfinished buildings in Shanghai’s Putuo District were blasted at the same time, even triggering an M1.7 earthquake. The blasting used 7 tons of explosives and arranged for 5 days.
This building has changed hands many times in the past 20 years, but the development process has repeatedly encountered problems. The capital chain of the takeover party is broken. Shenzhen Baoneng Group bought it in 2018, saying that these buildings have been vacant for too long and constructed There are hidden dangers in the safety of the structure.New follow-up construction.
▴The moment of blasting
There are also some more famous and unfinished real estates, but they choose to make a radical change and revitalize them with commercial transformation. Among them, the transformation of Beijing Wodland Park into an outlet is one of the most embarrassing cases.
In 1994, Reignwood Group, the “adoptive father” of Red Bull Beverage, planned to invest in one of the “largest amusement parks in Asia”, Wardland Amusement Park, in Changping District, Beijing, and leased more than 1,000 acres of land in five local villages. Four years later, this project has not been completed because the stakeholders have disagreements on land value evaluation and compensation, and it has been shelved.
Beside the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, this amusement park called “Wonderland” in English, literally translated as “Wonderland”, has been quietly abandoned for 15 years, and has a “realistic version of silence” in various rumors. With new names such as “Ling”, “Castle Ruins” and “Ghost City”, it is also known as one of the 20 most beautiful ruins in the world.
▴Wodland Paradise had a brilliant future plan. Picture source network
Until 2013, the amusement park that had been unfinished for many years was demolished, and a Great Wall international famous shopping mall was built on the spot, including the outlet commercial city, high-tech indoor amusement park and five-star hot spring resort hotel.
Only a few castles remain aroundThe spire and the hollow steel shell can vaguely see the phantom of Wardland’s fairy tale castle.
▴Wodland Paradise Ruins. Picture source network
In a modern city where real estate anxiety is only increasing, the “unfinished building” lying in the golden zone is like an itchy scab that disturbs people’s minds.
Some people may like its run-down, but more people are waiting for its salvation.
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