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That is amazing! Nice find & thanks for sharing.

thats almost too cool to be real.

Interesting image, but it looks fake (added after demolition, as an installation). Look at the lower left-hand corner - the sink at floor level with the toilet? Also, no builder adds tile and bath fixtures directly onto brick - unless this is a very warm country, there is risk of pipes freezing and bursting in winter. There would be insulation, framing, plaster or drywall... and if that came down, so would the fixtures you see.

arza, that looks to be a hall toilet on the landing, and if you look carefully you'll see the tile and fixtures are not on brick but on plaster walls framed by the outline of load bearing brick walls.

I agree that this appears to be an installation rather than an actual artifact of demolition. However, we are looking at the party-wall of townhouses/apartments. So actually there wouldn't be insulation, framing, etc.. The finishing materials such as plaster or, yes, tile would have been applied directly to the masonry.

I'm not so sure about the UK. At a glance it looks more Spanish or Mediterranean.

Amazing! Btw it's Barcelona, it's mentioned at the flickr photostream.

they're called ghost rooms. i think i've seen them on boingboing.net before

Yes, saw that on boingboing too, there is a neat flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/demolitionart/

This example looks too crisp and clean though, I also suspect it could be an art installation. Regardless it's cool!

I don't know if this image is from the artist Sam Javanrouh, but he has taken images of such life-sized doll house-ery.

His website is http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/.

Abbey posted about him on her wonderful blog Aesthetic Outburst (http://www.aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com/) and she found out about him on Happy Mundane (http://happymundane.blogspot.com/2008/06/mundane-aesthetic-daily-dose-of-imagery.html).

Also check out an artist Abbey blogged about, Heather Benning. She created a life-sized dollhouse in an abandoned house, complete with plexiglass walls to look inside and 60's furniture. Read more about it at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/06/11/benning-dollhouse.html and more fun pictures here:
http://charmed-charmedimsure.blogspot.com/2008/07/very-cool.html

It would have been pretty amazing to take out all those walls and floors without dislodging *any* tiles, so I suspect that at the very least it's been put back together a bit (the tiles of the incorrect shades you can see are probably ones that were patched in afterwards).

Accidental or not, this is so flippin' cool.