- 7AM, Monday morning, sitting half sleep in a rush hour buss, listening people talking about their weekend activities, I was going into a job interview. The early morning and the dull company, people talking loudly how they had been shopping during the weekend and someone yelling to his cell phone personal medical issues, made me really pissed off and tired. 

- Suddenly however there was something that got my heart pounding like in a heart attack. The buss continued steadily it's journey and I wasn't sure had I really seen that "thing"...the concrete monster...or had I just been dreaming to get faster to the interview. During the job interview, the only thing that was occupying my mind was that sight, tall concrete building, broken windows and a huge graffiti in front of the building. That just can't be, I must have been dreaming, Finland just doesn't have so huge abandoned building. It's just impossible...

- Getting back to home from my interview, the same sight greeted me again. Pressing my nose against the buss window, I quickly calculated at least five different floors, glanced the smashed windows and junk hanging from the windows. This just can't be, without a doubt this is the biggest single abandoned building in Finland. How come nobody else haven't noticed this before?

- Barely I was able to restrain my enthusiasm and wait for the next day, before heading inside of the concrete monster. While finally getting to the inner courtyard of the building, three other people appeared from the bushes. I went talking with them, as they looked also like fellow explorers. They knew something about the history of this building, not much, but they were able to tell me that the building has been abandoned for years and that the fire department trains sometimes inside of the building. After this short conversation, they quickly headed for the upper parts of the building, while I still stood in the yard, admiring the absolutely amazing view.

- The building was huge, five or six different floors, tens of rooms in each of the floors and few other smaller buildings that were attached to this bigger one. The huge size of the place made it impossible to explore everything during the first time. Although I explored the building, from the first floor to the roof top, I was determined to come back here a second time and even a third and fourth time.

- However, much to my horror, a few weeks later, I noticed an excavator demolishing the small wooden building next to the concrete monster. Then during the day after that, they were tearing down the whole building! Now, December 2003, there is just a big hole at the place where this building was located. I'm glad that I happened to be at the right place at the right time, but still I do feel a bit sad, that the building needed to disappear so quickly. However, I can say without a doubt, that this was the biggest single abandoned building in this country. This place was a real match for those huge places that you see in American and Belgium UE sites, but there just wasn't enough time to document everything. Although the place was completely vandalized, there was some small details around, but one visit to the building wasn't enough to start looking around thoroughly.

- So enjoy the pictures and hopefully, someday, while going to a job interview, I will get lucky again.

- Oh yes, and I did get the job, even when my mind was quite occupied with other things during the interview...

- Most of the doors to the elevator had been sealed off properly, so that nobody wouldn't be falling into the elevator shaft. Covered in graffiti's, these elevator doors were quite hard to spot from the rest of the wall...covered also in graffiti's.

- However, one door to the elevator shaft, had been twisted open. Don't worry, I didn't stick my head into the elevator shaft, because with my luck, even when the elevator has been positioned at the top floor for who knows how many years, it would have started falling down immediately when I would have been under it. There's a thing called Murphy's Law...