HENNEBIQUE SILOS 2 Industrial Archeology Abandoned Places Canvas Print

A piece of ancient history of Genoa from the industrial era...
The silos Hennebique was a granary deposit. It was built in the late 800. It opened in 1901 bearing the name of the entrepreneur who developed the invention of reinforced concrete. It was one of the first in the world, built with this technique, of this size, it is in fact more than two hundred meters long.
When it was running it loaded grain from ships, through a wharf, to be stored on the premises.
Many projects have been studied for the reuse of the bulding: from hotel to university faculty, the Italian history museum, a cruise terminal. However, it has a large number of stylistic and constructive obligations to be respected and therefore ... it is abandoned from the 70s. Almost half a century.

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Enrico Pelos is a photographer and journalist. Born in Genoa. At the beginning, designer and graphic artist, passionate about the psyche-prog-rock music scene, he worked in London for some years where he lived in contact with the interesting movements of the '70s and' 80s (he later wrote as co-author "Memorie Beatlesiane e dintorni" with shots at big concerts like Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Kraftwerk, CSN & Y, etc) . Back in Italy he founded with other photographers photoclubs and he organized and participates in several group exhibitions and then personal exhibitions such as "Along the High Way of the Ligurian Mountains", "Along the Ways of the faith", "Along the Alta Via of the Ligurian mountains in Pennavaire Valley" all accompanied...