Charbonnage du Renard
About this location
At Charbonnage du Renard in Liège, Belgium, the abandoned site is a red brick industrial landscape being slowly reclaimed by vegetation, from the loading bay where a small tree grows before the open entrance and a corrugated metal panel covers the right window to the broad overgrown field that slopes up toward a long, single-story building with rows of large rectangular bays. Dense bushes and weeds crowd the brickwork, and inside the dark loading bay an empty chair sits amid the quiet decay. Nearby, a military vehicle with a rusted front is overgrown with grass and weeds under a bright blue sky, while a room with peeling paint, debris, rubble, discarded materials, and an old car seat shows the same abandonment. In one large industrial hall, a burnt red van with a bare frame and a grey car tagged with red graffiti rest on a rubble-strewn floor beneath a partially missing ceiling, sunlight streaming through tall windows onto graffiti-covered walls. A decaying vehicle cab reveals a rusted dashboard and yellow panel marked with red spray paint, loose wires, and a dark shadowed interior, but a bright yellow rubber duck perched on a metal rod creates a stark contrast against the dusty machinery, with no people present in the desolate scene.