About this place

The former site of a massive state-owned special steel plant, now converted into 1938 Special Steel Creative Park — the original blast furnaces and red brick factory buildings preserved as the architectural backdrop for coffee shops, galleries and bookstores.

Drifter says

"This isn't a ruin anymore, and if you go expecting urban exploration you'll be disappointed. What's worth coming for is the scale of the industrial architecture around the commercial tenants — the preserved blast furnaces and factory structures dwarf everything built inside them...."

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