Asmara, the capital and largest city in the African nation of Eritrea, was hit by a freak hail and rain storm on March 12th that reportedly caused hail to accumulate up to a meter (three feet) deep on ...
Completed in 1939, the Fiat Tagliero service station is one of the city's many Art Deco structures. Sailko/Wikimedia Commons The city is rife with examples of Art Deco architecture. Clay ...
ASMARA, Eritrea — With soaring 60-foot-long concrete wings that mimic the shape of an airplane, the Fiat Tagliero garage, built in 1938 in the Eritrean capital, is one of the most unusual gas stations ...
The people of Eritrea have long said their capital Asmara is like no other city in Africa, and on Saturday the UN agreed, designating it a World Heritage site. The proclamation ends a long-running ...
Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, was an Italian colony between 1890 and 1941. The city was populated by a large Italian community (53,000 of 98,000 inhabitants in 1939), so the architecture is a ...
A new UNESCO project funded by the Government of The Netherlands is supporting Eritrea’s efforts to strengthen the conservation and management of Asmara: A Modernist African City World Heritage ...
Introduction / Peter Volgger -- Photo essay : colonial mirrors / Jean Robert. -- part I: Colonial origin. 1st chapter: Colonialism and modernity. Is modern architecture good? / Kathleen ...
ON A dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station. Once owned by AGIP, an Italian petrol company, it was for decades the last place to fill up ...
Much of what we create—clothing, furniture, buildings—is plotted with an eye toward an imagined future. More often than not, we imagine that future incorrectly. Eli Durst’s photographs frequently ...
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