More ugli fica tions of Windhoek

The Ohlthaver and List group, Namibia's only conglomerate, which used to be a patron of opera and stuff like that (the music silly, not the browser) but since the death of its founder now firmly in the hands of the bean-counters, has given the city centre one of its most "attractive" features - a project which started in a orgy of constructional activity, and which most people assumed was going to emerge into a new shopping centre, turned out to be a car park - presumably finished but we don't know what the red spikes are for on top. Behind this stunning erection is another O&L effort - an ersatz German office block (yellow in background), its name as imaginative as the architecture ("Town Square") and just as unsuccessful commercially.
The other prime block of Windhoek CBD is occupied by a fruit and veg emporium (converted from a beerhall), appropriately in lemon yellow, and a cash building materials warehouse. The margins on potatoes and plasterboard must be higher than anyone realised.
More uglies tomorrow, and as always your suggestions welcome.

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