...from the balcony of our modern apartment in central Bangkok. The building visible on the left edge is ours, and is the same one as visible on the right edge, since this is a stitched composite of 8 images taken along 180 degrees arc*.
That lone decrepit tenement centered in an open graveyard of foundations from of similar ones, already razed: I fantasize that it remains, no doubt an impediment to ambitious development plans, due to some conflicts of law or interests stemming from the elaborate cell tower on its roof. Layers of irony: of new protecting old, preventing new...
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*around my Z (yaw) axis, using the awesome iPhone app Autostitch (no affiliation)
You just made all of that up. :) Perhaps they're building a center for battered women? School?
ReplyDeleteGreat pics!