From the Ottoman buildings to the abandoned Art Deco neighbourhoods to the concrete futuristic buildings of the 1970s: the Iraqi capital is rich in a thousand and a stratum, accumulated over a turbulent history, says Australian journalist Ben Buckland in Foreign Policy. Today, the question arises as to what to renovate, what to conserve, while a new blazing Baghdad has begun to emerge from the ground.
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From the Ottoman buildings to the abandoned Art Deco neighbourhoods to the concrete futuristic buildings of the 1970s: the Iraqi capital is rich in a thousand and a stratum, accumulated over a turbulent history, says Australian journalist Ben Buckland in Foreign Policy. Today, the question arises as to what to renovate, what to conserve, while a new blazing Baghdad has begun to emerge from the ground.