An edition of Giovanna Silva (2018)

Giovanna Silva

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An edition of Giovanna Silva (2018)

Giovanna Silva

Niemeyer4ever

First edition.

In the early 1960s Oscar Niemeyer designed a complex in Tripoli that was intended to serve as a large exhibition centre and to be part of the Tripoli International Fair. The location used to be a vast?orchard, full of oranges. Now here lies an abandoned complex of 15 structures, including an outdoor theater, a concert hall, an atrium, an arch, a heliport and lodgings. The site is an example of futurist modernist architecture, unfortunately led to decay. The project was never finished due to technical problems, incoherent bud-gets and the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. Photographer Giovanna Silva visited the site and documented what is left, capturing the atmosphere, the fading colours, the leftover stones but nonetheless showing us the grandeur of what was once the centre of Tripoli?s architecture.

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Edition Notes

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Title from colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
[Sint-Amandsberg]
Series
APE -- #142, APE (Series) -- #142.
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Niemeyer4ever, Niemeyer forever

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
770
Library of Congress
TR659 .S5827 2019

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 volume (unpaged)

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44370272M
ISBN 10
9493146235
ISBN 13
9789493146235
OCLC/WorldCat
1119974403

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Work Description

Giovanna Silva captured the long gone glory of Palmyra, a legendary hotel in Baalbek, Lebanon. She leads us through old and charming rooms that breathe out the once decadent soul of the hotel. Pale colours, wall cracks, the smell of old wooden furniture and Persian rugs take you on a journey into the past. At the same time, we feel the current presence of war and decay. Out of the windows of the Palmyra one can see the ruins of the ancient Roman temple of Heliopolis. For this reason lots of tourists and academics visited the hotel since its opening in 1874. The hotel has not closed for a day since that time. Its popularity attracted international figures such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Jean Cocteau and Charles de Gaulle, but due to impact of the war on the border with Syria and an economic depression in general, the hotel now stands empty.

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