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Renovate Good Times, C’mon!
Slovenia has done a lot of renovating since the collapse of Yugoslavia, but there are still plenty of neglected and dilapidated structures around.
Sometimes you can see two identical buildings standing next to each other — one of them freshly renovated, the other one not. Architects call this the “Two-Face Effect.” (Actually, they don’t… But they should.)
Here are three examples of the effect in action:
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We see this everywhere in Romania, too. In fact, any of these could be pictures from our neighborhood.
Our house is renovated, but the house immediately across the street is not. In fact, it’s slowly falling to pieces — pigeons flying in and out of the empty windows. A pity.
Doug M.
Could also be East Germany. By now though a lot of those buildings that were renovated right after the wall fell need some fresh paint again now.