PUBLIC MARKS with tags architecture & decay

However.  On the rare occasions that I get to visit a forgotten building as magnificent as this one, I can’t help day dreaming about some of the incredible monumental relics I know back home and quietly wishing that a few more of them had been left to grow old and perish naturally rather than being unceremoniously hooked up to the proverbial life support machine of modern tourism as is so often the case these days.

Une cynique expression russe du XVIIIe siècle déclarait que partout dans le monde les ruines se faisaient, mais qu’à Saint Pétersbourg on prenait le soin de les construire.

A peek inside the Kyoto University dormitory first built in 1913 that still houses student squatters for the ultra low price of ¥2,500 a month.