I know extensive façade refurbishing takes time, ... is expensive, etc. ... etc ... etc , but the saddening reality is that some of our fine examples of architecture are falling to pieces ... their past glamour almost unrecognizable as their undeserved "melancholic" looks strike the passers-by ...I was recently walking around Praça de Espanha and Gran Via in Madrid and couldn't help thinking about some of the avenues in Lisbon, particularly those with "slowly dying" buildings along them ... and just wondered what they might look like if ... some of their "fine" architectural "skeletons" were to be taken care of ...
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