This one is being constructed. |
Everything is made out of concrete here because I assume it needs to be that way to withstand the rainy summer season. It sounds like it gets very wet and humid during the summers and I am guessing normal wood structures just wouldn't cut it. But I'm not sure.
Guys are smashing concrete with pick axes wherever you look--and at all hours of the day. There's one building down by the Plaza de Armas that has people working on it until about 11:00pm every day. I guess they mean business. It's just hard to tell what kind of business they mean: construction or destruction?
As these buildings are constructed they just look like a dump until they get all polished and paired up. And virtually all of the work is done by hand--even the cement mixing--so they look like a dump for quite some time. Anywhere you look you can find a building in some stage of being built or destroyed which, aesthetically, is a mess but actually it's a sign of progress.
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