Non-Structures & Palimpsest: Photography as a Register for Urban Regeneration and Real Estate Speculation


"Unsustainable Structures", 3. Image © Francisco Ibáñez Hantke

"Unsustainable Structures", 3. Image © Francisco Ibáñez Hantke

In honor of World Photography Day (August 19 ), Chilean architect Francisco Ibáñez Hantke offers a a perspective of urban transformation and the resulting instability caused by the regenerative processes and the constant real estate speculation that drive it. The photographs center on London, and reveal an exhausting array of construction and demolition and highlight the often blurry line between architecture and urban decay.

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