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Abandoned Singapore: Old Changi Hospital
Old Changi Hospital, located on the North East tip of Singapore was constructed by British forces in the 1930s as part of the RAF Changi military base. It remained in use as a hospital, under many different names and managements, until it was vacated in 1997 when operations shifted to Changi General Hospital at Simei.…
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Abandoned Singapore: Kallang Airport
Kallang Airport, was Singapore’s first purpose-built civil airport and operated between 1937-1955. As of documentation and writing [2019] the airport lies empty, having been vacant since 2009, when the People’s Association (PA) shifted their offices from the site. The site has been gazetted for consevation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and awaits redevelopment in…
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Hong Kong: Drainage Tunnel
Shek Pik Reservoir is a reservoir in Shek Pik on Lantau Island in Hong Kong – it has a storage capacity of 24 million cubic metres and is the third largest reservoir in Hong Kong. Its history dates back to the mid-1950s where rapid population growth and economic development fuelled a need for additional sources…
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Abandoned Singapore: Faber Fire Command Fortress Plotting Room
Beneath the well known Peak of Mount Faber, Singapore lies a relatively unknown subterranean complex: Faber Fire Command Fortress Plotting Room, which was built in 1936. The Fortress Plotting Room was where information about naval targets was received from Fortress Observation Posts, plotted and the required information extracted and then acted on. There were two…
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Abandoned Singapore: Mediacorp Caldecott Broadcast Centre
Nestled among the quiet residential streets of Caldecott Hill lie the remains of Singapore’s Mediacorp Caldecott Broadcast Centre. From radio to TV, the broadcast station played a pivotal role in the development of Singapore’s media scene. Radio-Television Singapore, the precursor to today’s Mediacorp, opened its new Television Studio Centre in 1966, which at the time…
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Abandoned Singapore: Pasir Panjang Power Station
Pasir Panjang Power Station was Singapore’s second power station, following on from the nearby St James Power Station. It officially opened on 3 July 1953 and was finally decommissioned in 1997 with the expansion of newer facilities at Pulau Seraya, Senoko and Tuas. The striking red brick facade, punctuated by white framed round and square…
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Abandoned Singapore: Fort Serapong
Buried among the overgrown jungle at the North-Eastern edge of Sentosa island lies Fort Serapong, a sprawling abandoned military complex complete with tunnels, bunkers, and other subterranean spaces. Built between the 1870s and 1890s, Fort Serapong, together with Fort Siloso, Fort Connaught and the Imbiah Battery, formed an integrated part of the British’s southern coastal defence at Pulau…
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Abandoned Singapore: Jurong Railway Line
Many people have explored the Singapore’s ‘Green corridor’ however few have ventured slightly further West to follow the route of the Jurong Railway line. The now defunct line was a freight route which used to connect the coastal warehouses at the Jurong Industrial Estate back to the mainline at Bukit Timah along a 9 mile…
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Aldwych Abandoned Underground Station
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UCL Tunnels
“Nakatomi space, wherein buildings reveal near-infinite interiors, capable of being traversed through all manner of non-architectural means”. Exploring the Nakatomi space within the brutalist SOAS library and UCL’s Institute of Education at Bedford way. Much of the university campus here is connected via service tunnels, which run utilities between buildings from centralized plant rooms. At points these tunnels…
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Euston Station Abandoned Tunnels
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Camden Catacombs
Beneath the heaving, unpleasant streets of Camden lies a secret unknown to the hoards of tourists and market traders up above – a long-forgotten labyrinth of tunnels and vaults that are relics of the area’s colourful Victorian industrial past. Colloquially known as ‘The Camden Catacombs’ the tunnels were in fact not used to store bodies, but as stables for…
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Imperial University Tunnels
Deep beneath the streets of South Kensington lies a hidden labyrinth of service and utility tunnels which reach beneath the wider Albertropolis area, criss-crossing the Imperial University Campus and connecting to basements of The Science Museum and Natural History Museum. The tunnel network dates back to the period of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, when a public pedestrian…
