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See The Beautiful Colonial Era Buildings Of Myanmar Before They Get Torn Down

Myanmar's colonial style buildings are at risk of being torn down, according to The Los Angeles Times. The country was annexed by the British in 1824 and like other colonized countries, visible in its ...
CNN

How Yangon’s heritage hotels became guardians of its colonial architecture

Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...
Seattle Times

Myanmar’s colonial buildings at risk of demolition

YANGON, Myanmar — They stand like ghosts from a bygone era, struggling to maintain a shabby dignity in the face of creeping foliage and years of neglect, all the while fueling a debate: Should they be ...
The Baltimore Sun

Money launders Hong Kong’s past Cleansing: Almost all of Hong Kong’s colonial buildings have been torn down to make way for more profitable modern structures.

HONG KONG — When British officials talk about their legacy in Hong Kong, they often boast of the colony’s rule of law, efficient bureaucracy and lack of corruption. But walk around Hong Kong, and ...
Yahoo

Buildings on Grambling campus on National Register, with Colonial Revival architecture

From 1939 to 1960, Grambling State University was the only institution of higher learning available to African Americans in North Louisiana. During this period, the earliest buildings on the present ...
The St. Augustine Record

Nation's Oldest City: Spanish colonial buildings ones to treasure

Unique among the historic buildings in the United States are the Spanish colonial residences of St. Augustine. From a national perspective, beyond just a local viewpoint, that is one reason that the ...
The Economist

Conservationists are rushing to save Myanmar’s colonial buildings

SINCE MYANMAR began to reverse decades of isolationism in 2011, it has embraced modernity with a zeal befitting a country deprived of it for so long. Students tap smartphones, food-delivery jockeys ...
Yahoo

Jamaica’s ‘dark tourism’ drive will turn colonial buildings into slavery monuments

Luxury cruise liners, like this docked at Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the British Empire - ISTOCK Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as ...
Seattle Times

Mexico City starts reviving its historic, but blighted, center

MEXICO CITY — No road in this city’s colonial heart passes closer to the landmark Metropolitan Cathedral than the grandly named Republica de Guatemala street. Yet the block that abuts the ...
The Real Deal

Firm to pay restitution to tenants in 42 rent-regulated buildings

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today that his office has reached a settlement with Colonial Management over the company’s maintenance of 42 rent-regulated buildings in New ...
Los Angeles Times

In Myanmar, colonial-era buildings risk demolition

Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar — They stand like ghosts from a bygone era, struggling to maintain a shabby dignity in the face of creeping foliage and years of neglect, all the while fueling a debate: ...