01 Partly vacant
Belgrade Serbia
The Western City Gate
Belgrade's brutalist twin towers bridged by a sky-walk and crowned with a dead revolving restaurant — a city's idea of the future, half-occupied.
JUL 2025
Read
Field Journal · 5 Entries · Balkans & Beyond
The empty places
keep finding me.
Ruins, lost roads and the silence left behind. A photographer's field journal of abandoned places and brutalist architecture — recorded before they are gone.
Enter the index
Featured Pristina, Kosovo
A Building Wearing Armour
Ninety-nine domes and a cage of metal lattice in Pristina — the National Library of Kosovo, the most argued-about building in the Balkans.
42.6565° N, 21.1595° E JUL 2025
Entries
05
Countries
05
Focus
Brutalism / Ruin
Terrain
Coast → Alpine
Latest entries
All 05 02 Abandoned
Petrovac Montenegro
Vacancy
A terraced concrete resort going to salt and graffiti on the Montenegrin coast — every empty room still has the sea.
JUL 2025
Read
03 Abandoned
Mount Igman Bosnia & Herzegovina
After the Games
A modernist hotel built for a mountain's brightest moment, left to the pines above Sarajevo.
JUN 2025
Read
04 Abandoned
Buzludzha Peak Bulgaria
The House on the Mountain
A concrete flying saucer abandoned on a Bulgarian ridge at 1,400 metres — the Buzludzha monument, slowly losing its mosaics to the wind.
JUN 2025
Read
Who is behind this
I'm Alexandr — I edit video and chase ruins. This is where the stills live.
By day I build things on the web; the rest of the time I'm somewhere with a camera, standing in a place most people drive past. This journal collects the architecture and abandonment I find — mostly across the Balkans, sometimes further. The day job lives elsewhere.