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Niemeyer4ever, Giovanna Silva

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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 an immense / vast orchard, full of oranges. Now here lies an abandoned complex of 15 structures, including / which include an outdoor theatre, 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. P

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