There is a thing that they do here that they call "fascadism". It's taxidermy for buildings. How it works is this: when they take down an old building, they save the front skin. Everything else comes down and is thrown away, but the part that faced the street is saved and reused. It's glued onto the much larger building that is being built. The main attraction of this method is that, from the street as you walk by, what makes an impression and what you remember passing, is the old building that used to be there, because that's what you see. You see the old skin and the huge new thing that has replaced the old thing is not visible to you as you pass by. You only see it when you look up if you look up at all. This is a piece of old-building-skin as it is being held up with iron beams. See, now you've learned something new. That's good, right?

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