A huge apartment building in the Asian side of Istanbul stands deserted after being deemed unsafe for earthquake regulations. Now the haunt of graffiti artists and the homeless, such abandoned structures are haunting reminders of the great earthquake of 1999, where cheap construction and unplanned architecture murdered more than twenty thousand people.
Monday, 18 June 2007
At the Verge of Collapse
A huge apartment building in the Asian side of Istanbul stands deserted after being deemed unsafe for earthquake regulations. Now the haunt of graffiti artists and the homeless, such abandoned structures are haunting reminders of the great earthquake of 1999, where cheap construction and unplanned architecture murdered more than twenty thousand people.
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