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Modernist Masterpieces in Unlikely Asmara

July 23, 2016July 23, 2016TesfaNews3 Comments

By The Economist, On a dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station. Once owned by AGIP, an Italian petrol company, it was for decades the last place to fill up with fuel between the Eritrean capital and the southern towns of Decemhare and Mendefera, some 40km […]

The World’s Most Spectacular Gas Station

January 26, 2014January 26, 2014TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

By Peter Orosz, The Fiat Tagliero Building, built in 1938, is an architectural ode to the automobile like Fiat’s Lingotto factory in Turin. But the Tagliero is thousands of miles from Italy’s industrial heartland—and it is but one of the many magnificent Futurist structures in Asmara, the highland capital of Eritrea.