There surely are aesthetical ruins and less beautiful ones. Post-WWII sites which seem to have closed under "humiliating" conditions can be a bit challenging from a beauty point of view, and here is really a stellar representative of that category.

Entering the field of making construction material seems to have been a very lucrative business in the post-WWII construction bonanza and the number of factories opened or massively expanded during the period 1945-1970 must have been of historic proportions. However, it seems like we've heard the story before - the 1972-73 oil crisis and massive wage increases during 1965-1975 period in combination with more sustained and deep recessions knocked the construction business down from its recent heights. From peaks with excess of 100.000 apartments built yearly all around Sweden during the 1960-1975 period, the production was brought to a complete halt - the money and demand was gone. And probably worse - this type of wall bricks grew out of fashion at the same time competition by imports increased.

This brick works seems like it survived the crisis of the 1970's, but it must have followed rickety path. Firing bricks in kilns fueled with bunker oil, designed for an oil price not exceeding $5 per barrel and no environmental regulations must have been a challenge after the 1970's. It seems like the site sank during the 1990's and it now breathes nothing but despair and a tragic sense of capital destruction. The state of stuff gives a clue that the final knock must have been a bit of a surprise.

Ironically, it can be said that the typical buildings built with this type of bricks (typical factory output was bricks in different shades of brown) in the same era are also in an overall sense of "out-of-fashion" or plainly equally "kaputt", like the one in https://pbase.com/jakobe/res_area
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