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It is certainly positive that so much of Sarajevo has been reconstructed and redeveloped—rather that then these huge landmarks remained vacant hulks for ruin porn voyeurs—but the juxtaposition of the raw, pockmarked brutalism of the old Oslobodenje printing house and the gleaming alubond-and-mirrors glass cylinder of the rather cheesy Radon Plaza Hotel which repurposed the skeleton of the old office block atop it, is quite a jarring contrast. Photos July 2019 Bauzeitgeist.

Continuing from the previous post, the tyranny of Alubond is manifest not just in the new buildings but in the renovation of the old. Here is a old government building on Yaoundé’s main mall, Boulevard du 20 Mai, which is commencing renovation. Almost certainly designed and constructed prior to 1970, this handsome mid-century modern façade is scheduled, as the rendering shows, to be concealed behind aluminum composite cladding. The deep concrete recesses and vertical shade fins will disappear under a shiny elevation of cheap panels. While any building owner has the right to renovate, in many West African cities over the last few years I have noticed this phenomenon where an admirable example of vintage modern architecture being wallpapered over with increasingly-ubiquitous alubond, transforming a unique example of architectural heritage into just another box of cladding, both glossy and dull in its cheapness. Photo 2019 Bauzeitgeist. #architecture #building#vintagearchitecture#architecturalheritage#architecturalhistory#historicpreservation#architecturalpreservation#modernarchitecture#modernistarchitecture #alubond#cladding #africanarchitecture

The head office of the Cameroonian state investment agency, somewhat-unfortunately translated as the ‘Autonomous Sinking Fund,’ with its odd cockpit conference room looming over the main mall stretch of Boulevard du 20 Mai, suggesting a prison panopticon over this increasingly less-democratic state. Otherwise another standard iteration of the mind-numbing Alubond-clad recent construction which is ubiquitous throughout the developing world. Photo February 2019 Bauzeitgeist.

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