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Abandoned buildings disfiguring the city
View(s):Despite Colombo being overcrowded with hardly any room for new construction, the city has many buildings which lie disused, neglected and dilapidated which dot the city landscape, many in the heart of the city itself.
Story and pics by M.A.Pushpakumara
Some of these buildings, date back to over a century, as for example the old Colombo Kachcheri building. Destroyed by fire in 2012 the burn’t out building, now an eye-sore, still stands serving no purpose.
In Pettah, buildings once constructed to house market stalls are now used to park vehicles, or are used by street people.
The same fate has befallen the much hyped ‘Floating Market,’ which now stands empty.
Dozens of other abandoned marketplaces and warehouses are found within the city limits.
Given that construction sites within the city are in short supply; shouldn’t the authorities be taking steps to renovate these buildings for public benefit?
Put up at public cost this string of disused buildings are not only an eye-sore but reek of human waste and other nauseous fumes
Colombo’s homeless, men, women and beast have turned these unused building into temporary shelters
Once a SATHOSA warehouse the building now stands idle and abandoned
Not a pleasant site, but a place where the homeless find shelter
This row of former market stalls has been turned into a vehicle parking area by enterprising entrepreneurs
The burnt out shell of colombo’s old Kachcheri building