It's physically lovely, with the best natural harbour in Australia outside Sydney and lots of remnants of Victorian architecture.
"It will be a kind of archeological walk through remnants of industrial architecture from the seventeen-nineties through the twentieth century".
Today, tourists still appreciate the remnants of its architecture and sophisticated hydro-engineering systems, composed of canals, moats and large reservoirs known as barays.
Cultural remnants of Tang architectural influence are still visible in the Buddhist architecture of Dunhuang, on the border between the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor.
Two classic brownstones were combined to create 12 guestrooms and residences but remnants of the original architecture remain like the Victorian staircase leading to the guestrooms.
The city sprawled south and west from its seafront corniche, a dusty, gray-and-tan landscape of mostly low-slung, ugly block houses, with only a few fading remnants of Italian colonial architecture.
That kind of education might help designers to dig deeper, like using as inspiration the spiders' webs of electric wires spun across the city or the remnants of Portuguese colonial architecture rather than more predictable ideas taken from nature — although fragile butterfly wings were used in broken patterns to great effect by Lanre Da Silva-Ajayi for her LDA label.
The city is studded with Moorish and medieval architecture, although its remnants of Roman and Visgothic architecture are not as prominent as in nearby Mérida.
Meanwhile, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, one of the last remnants of Albert Speer's Nazi architecture, has been spiffed up in time to set the stage for the World Cup finals.
Gregory Crewdson's "Untitled, Summer," depicting a widened, all-but-empty main street on which ugly new box-front stores consort with remnants of a town's old architecture, shows urban slickery winning out over preservation.
In contrast to the mid-week traffic, it is virtually deserted, leaving Mukhtar and his group of camera-wielding tourists to admire the remnants of the city's colonial architecture and daily life with a sense of wonderment: the few hawkers who have woken early, and the tea shop owners preparing for the breakfast crowd.
