Friday, 6 June 2014

As Myanmar Modernizes, Architectural Gems Are Endangered


Decades of socialism and military rule kept Myanmar — or Burma, as it was known — poor and isolated.

There was one upside, though. The economy was so lousy, there was no drive to demolish the big British colonial buildings in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, and replace them with the glass and steel towers that now define much of the skylines in East Asia.

[...] remarkable architectural heritage, which has come into the cross hairs of developers trying to cash in on rising land prices.
— npr.org

Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2014/06/06/as-myanmar-modernizes-architectural-gems-are-endangered-2/

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