It is unlike any other city in the developing world – brilliantly planned with hardly any slums. As the cold war with Ethiopia finally ends, Asmara can at last look to the future Nakfa House, a ...
Mussolini’s Italy brought death from the skies to East Africa in the 1930s – but left behind a striking futurist building in the Eritrean capital In 1935, the Italian air force launched chemical ...
ASMARA, Eritrea—In one of Africa’s most isolated and picturesque capitals, little is what it seems. Cloistered for decades by war and a reclusive policy of self-reliance, Asmara is a study in ...
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 ...
World Bank building, Asmara (all images, courtesy of the author) Asmara is itself a giant monument to colonial folly. When it comes to architecture, the Italians simply lost their heads. —Michela ...
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale ...
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 ...
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 15, 2015 / Sunridge Gold Corp. (the "Company" or "Sunridge") (TSX VENTURE:SGC, OTCQX:SGCNF) is pleased to provide an update on ...
It’s been a very active decade filled with milestones for Sunridge Gold, and now following the September signing of a comprehensive permitting agreement with its partner, the government of Eritrea, ...
"Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. It is an exceptional example of early modernist ...
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