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Frank: They made it.
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Lloyd: It took a few years.
Getting the local community interested. Since the mid-1990s. Getting the
paperwork together. Then lobbying. Application made beginning of 2016. Granted
mid-2017.
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Frank: Something odd though.
The architecture is not indigenous. It’s Italian futurism. It’s colonial.
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Lloyd: Still, the Asmara
citizens regard it as theirs.
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Frank: What do they use the
buildings for?
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Lloyd: Jane Jacobs once said:
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
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| Maybe Eritrean Air could use it as a plane... |
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Voice-over
UNESCO recognized Asmara in
Eritrea as a World Heritage site on July 8, 2017. As a colony of Italy from
1889 to 1941, Asmara contains well-preserved modernist buildings designed by
Italian futurists. UNESCO describes it as “an exceptional example of early
modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in
an African context.”
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