Hospitals and sanatoriums

Ivo Lucon

While visiting the Veneland amusement park in Morocco, an old church across the street catches our eye. “Wow, I wish it were abandoned”, this is what I immediately thought. And it was.

April 5, 2017
Hospital, hidden in the wood

Deep within the forested edge of the Lamač district in Bratislava, the concrete shell of the Rázsochy Hospital rises abruptly from the trees. Unlike urban ruins that gradually dissolve into surrounding infrastructure, this structure appears as a full-scale interruption in the landscape — a vast architectural frame left suspended between political eras. Conceived during the […]

January 12, 2017
Tons of concrete and glass in Zagreb

At the southwestern edge of Zagreb, beyond the dense residential districts and modern commercial developments surrounding the city’s newer suburbs, stands one of Croatia’s most remarkable unfinished structures: the abandoned University Hospital in Blato. Seen from the main road entering the capital, the immense concrete frame dominates the surrounding flat landscape with a scale that […]

January 6, 2017