Mar Mikhail: Another quaint low rise bites the dust


It’s an unassuming low rise one story building with beautiful detailing on the windows and shutters and cast iron balustrades. It’s now a shell. The façade is still there but the structure behind it is being torn down to build a new building. It’s not the first building to suffer such indignity. On the main road in Mar Mikhail there is another but more massive construction project that has preserved the façade of al older structure on the main road and encased it in a steel beam framework to prevent collapse.
 
This new trend in construction is trying to capitalize on the popularity of old traditional buildings that are so appealing to the nostalgic set. This practice speaks volumes about a country that has lost its way and is desperately trying to cling to the shells of the past while discarding the meat.

Below are a few more pictures of old buildings in Mar Mikhail, its anybody’s guess how long they will last.

 
 
 
 

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