The fire again raised the issues of safety in high-rise buildings that are under demolition or construction.
"They start with one building and then they take away a whole neighborhood," asserted Nafez Ghith, a 39-year-old souvenir shop owner whose family homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are under demolition order.
Her school, a basic three-room structure, is under a demolition order, as is the only other building in the village, the mosque, which is used as an overspill classroom.
The Oval gasometer, like others that have outlived their use across the country, is under threat of demolition, its presence measured in the hyper-inflated value of the land on which it stands rather than its historical or architectural significance.
Today, however, the gallery is under threat of demolition to make way for luxury housing and a 14-storey hotel.
This building, which has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, is under threat of demolition due to the expansion of the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering facilities.
I knew that it was under continuous demolition threat and that its neighbour was an illegal Israeli settlement.
Sadly, Buangkok, the original urban farm, is under constant threat of demolition.
"All debris from the demolition is under our feet," Ms. Koch said.
