The below photos show what looks to be an abandoned post-apocalyptic science fiction landscape, with weeds and decay slowly encroaching upon a futuristic building, a communications satellite dish and a rocket. This bizarre landscape can be found on the outskirts of the Spanish city of Seville on La Isla de La Cartuja. Despite its appearance the site is not an abandoned set of a science fiction movie, but is instead part of what remains of the Universal Exposition of Seville, also known at Expo 92. Expo 92 opened in April 1992 and ran for 6 months, attracting nearly 42 million visitors. The aim of the exposition was to celebrate the modern age and offer blueprints for the future, hence the science fiction feel. Over one hundred countries were represented at the event, with some of them sponsoring massive pavilions. Some of the biggest eye-catchers included Japan’s Pavilion (at the time, the world's largest wooden structure) and the Spanish Pavilion which included a modernistic cube and a huge sphere.
The facilities and Pavilions were all planned to be temporary and demolished in the months that followed the exposition, however only some of them were. Some of the facilities and Pavilions were converted for other uses and some of them were left to decay. The post-apocalyptic science fiction landscape pictured below is what remains of the “Plaza of the Future” - a vision of the future envisaged back in 1992.
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| The Plaza of the Future. |
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| The Plaza of the Future overgrown and left to decay. Views of its original grandeur can be found here, here and here. |
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| The "Seville rocket", a replica of the European Space Agency's Ariane Four launch system, which graces the Plaza of the Future. |
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| The biosphere - this huge sphere was used to spray micro-fine jets of water to cool visitors to the exposition. |
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| The colourful tower hiding in the background is the European Pavilion, to see it in all its glory look here. |
Pictures: Seville, Spain (November 2014).
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