This building was originally the forensic’s unit of an abandoned lunatic asylum which closed for good in 2007.
The decay and mold were immense in this building, the place is falling apart. Nature has began taking over this place and it almost seems like there is more vegetation than structure left.
Throughout its years of operation the asylum has had many accounts of violent patients, patient abuse and treatments used such as electric shock treatment.
I have been following this row of shops for a while now – A funeral directors, Indian shop, Community centre and hairdressers, slowly watching the place fall to disrepair.
Now the time has come for demolition, soon will be an empty block of land to one day be redeveloped.
The cycle of abandonment and demolition continues and I wait for its next victim to document before they are forgotten forever, the old replaced by the new, history once again destroyed in Wellington, New Zealand.
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