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| Advert cleaned and rearranged by Tarek Chemaly |
And the way about this time capsule of an advert.
The Murr Tower, which nonetheless stands empty and incomplete in spite of everything this city was imagined to be – as per its advert which appeared in Annahar newspaper in 1975 – as “the primary skyscraper of the Center East (curiously, it was not the primary skyscraper-inspired construction – look right here), and the advert boasts its 40-storey excessive size.
In the event you want to see the present within the tower, which was taken over by numerous militias over time (particularly through the struggle) please have a look at the fascinating pictures right here. For some time there have been plans to show the tower into a flowery high-rise however these by no means materialized (right here).
The tower nonetheless stays as a hole, empty, and macabre reminder of a Beirut with a questionable previous, and sadly, murky current and unsure future.
