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In Beirut, the port's grain silos are the subject of a bitter battle between supporters of their preservation and those in favor of their demolition.
On the evening of August 4, 2020, these 48 cylinders some fifty meters high spread over three rows, in which the country's strategic wheat reserves were stored, absorbed part of the explosion which killed 215 people and in injured 6,500 others.
They thus saved the west of the capital while the east suffered the full force of the shock wave.
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Damaged, they are unusable.
Nevertheless, for the architect Carlos Mubarak, they are part of the heritage.
“The silos have become a symbol of the disaster and are now a building block of our collective memory.
For me, it's a sacred space, which must be preserved at all costs, in order to allow the population to have a place to remember and gather
," explains the man who imagined a memorial in which they are a central element…
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