As a warehouse, it look's dilapidated and uninteresting, but inside, the graffiti, "wow" sadly some is fading, but it's beautiful, and very detailed, shame, it'll be lost as the place crumbles back to nature.
This site was a printing and publishing company, originally run in a nearby city from the end of the 19th century, but relocated and expanded at this location behind the family’s home in 1935.
Over time the focus of the business moved from postcards and photographs to more commercial printing, such as labels. Between 1948 and 1976 ownership passed into the hands of several American multinational companies, but production gradually withered with a lack of investment, and the site finally closed with the loss of the 46 remaining jobs in 2004.
Since then the site has become derelict, and in recent years used as a canvas for Ghent street artists Klaas Van der Linden (the skeletons) and ROA (the insects/animals), before being occupied by squatters.
This site was a printing and publishing company, originally run in a nearby city from the end of the 19th century, but relocated and expanded at this location behind the family’s home in 1935.
Over time the focus of the business moved from postcards and photographs to more commercial printing, such as labels. Between 1948 and 1976 ownership passed into the hands of several American multinational companies, but production gradually withered with a lack of investment, and the site finally closed with the loss of the 46 remaining jobs in 2004.
Since then the site has become derelict, and in recent years used as a canvas for Ghent street artists Klaas Van der Linden (the skeletons) and ROA (the insects/animals), before being occupied by squatters.
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