Two nights before New Year’s Eve, more than a thousand Macedonians gathered in the snow to hold hands and form a ring around a large shopping mall in the capital city of Skopje. That may sound like the beginning to some strange joke, but the crowd was assembled in earnest, to express its love of the modernist building known as GTC, and to protest a government plan to give it a new, baroque façade. — hyperallergic.com
... in a city whose architecture is mostly modernist, all of the Skopje 2014 building is being done in a strictly neoclassical style, from a brand new triumphal arch to a towering sculpture of a man on a horse — presumably, but not explicitly, Alexander the Great — atop a column adorned with lions, music, lights, and a fountain.
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I pointed out on Twitter post of this: it's not just because of how the building looks. They want to save this building because the remodel proposes to close several entrances that people use in their pedestrian movement through the city. This is an example of a building being part of an urban fabric, be it public or not.
to follow Donna, per this Google Translated page protestors (at least some) want GTC to "remain open stretches of walking motion, functional, authentic, urban ...We need to revive the roof terrace, to intervene with a new program, not with backdrops".
love this graphic too
All Soviet Red or something...
Oh man that graphic is super cool!
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