About Abando

Around twenty years ago, Peter Kable began photographing and recording abandoned properties in Dublin. Many of those buildings were already familiar gaps in the city: fenced, weathered, and waiting for a future use.

Some are still neglected and unused today. Abando grew from that long view of vacancy into a practical community plan: make underused buildings and sites visible, understandable, and easier to discuss locally.

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Abandoned property photographed in 2004 with facade retention steelwork — 2004One of Peter's early records of a neglected city building.

The same abandoned property photographed in 2026 still fenced and unused — 2026Two decades later, the site remains fenced, inactive, and underused.

Peter Kable

Peter Kable is exploring how joined-up thinking can turn vacancy from a scattered local problem into a coordinated reuse opportunity, linking community records with the systems that shape housing delivery.

Peter was awarded the Budding Entrepreneurs Award by the Brisbane Lord Mayor for automating planning assessments. With Abando, he is applying that long-running interest to a simpler public task: helping communities record neglected properties and build a clearer shared picture of local vacancy.

The aim is practical and local. People can pin properties, add observations, revisit the map, and use the growing record as a basis for better conversations about bringing neglected buildings back into use.