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Tuesday, 4 June 2013
ARCHITECTURE: Asmara 'Africa's Modernist City'
Asmara
represents perhaps one of the most concentrated and intact assemblage of
Modernist architecture
anywhere in the world.
Shell Service Station [1937]
Cinema Impero [1937]
The design on this former Fiat service station clearly imitates the streamlined and dynamic form of an aeroplane
[1938, Architect Giuseppe Pettazzi]
Above: From my personal photographs, rural Eritrea in the 1940's
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