Location: Kyläsaari In Helsinki (FINLAND)
N60°11.91'
E024°58.45'
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- I really forgot this place for a long time, as looking at the place from distance, it didn't seem to offer too many photographing targets, partly I was right, partly wrong as the place was quite big or actually tall. - During the interview, I again like usuall tried the most unnoticeable access to the place, but was stopped with the camera surveillance signs and a tall fence. Climbing over a fence certainly isn't too unnoticeable, so during the second visit, I chose the second option that I have, if the first one fails: Be as bold as you can, and just walk through the main gate and say hi to everyone. It worked... - We were actually me and my fiancé trying to visit one another place from which I had gotten a tip, that there's an access to the place. Unfortunately that trip didn't prove too succesful and when we were heading home, I happened to remember the water purification plant of Kyläsaari and my first tragicomic attempt to get into the place. This time we just walked through the main gate into the city depot and reached the area of the old water purification plant, without any difficulties. - There's really not much left from the water purification plant, few reservoirs and the main building, which is partly buried under soil. The building itself is quite tall, with three to four floors and a basement full of water. The upper floor created a one big room, with drains leading to somewhere... The midlevel floors each had a small room, which most likely in the past have contained different gauges etc, but now those were completely empty and full of graffiti. The only signs from life inside of this place, were the numerous pigeons, that were flying in the top floor. One of the pigeons also greeted us in the first floor and kept on hopping towards the upper floors in front of us. It's wing had been damaged to the point, that it could not fly anymore...city life...
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- The funny looking main building, which is the only building in the area that you can visit. The other structures, if any, have been demolished a long time ago. The red brick building seen on the left side of the picture, is a recycling centre and next to it, on the other side of the hill, is the city depot. |
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- The top floor, with it's big room where the pigeons were having their very own speeding contests. Flying from one end to another, they finally disappeared to the sky, from a hole in the ceiling.
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