Existing staircase

This Surau An-Naim existing staircase will be demolished when the Surau extension is built.



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How do you view this?

A bus parked overnight near a bus stop encroaching on to the middle of a fast moving traffic road.



It looks very obvious if you view it from the back. Encroaching on into the road. How do you view it? Dangerous to traffic flow?



Look up close. Abandoned bus stop? Anyway that bus stop had been damaged by the retaining wall collapsing quite sometime back, the retaining wall had been repaired and the bus stop supporting pillars re-straightened but the roof had not been repaired.



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A community

The community is alive. People go about, holiday, migrating, moving houses and pilgrimage. Going around the estate one can detect how lively the community is. Houses used to be occupied are now empty and before long occupied again. People go on a holiday over the holiday periods, over Christmas, over New Years and maybe over the children school holiday period. And now they are back in their homes as if nothing had happened. And those who decide to move off from the estate, some to another estate, some to another town and some may even go to another country. And you see houses put up for sale or to let, but in most cases they are put up fore sale. Money for a new life.

And those going on a pilgrimage, especially the Muslims, a month in Mekah during the Haj period. And they come back, all happy that they have done their obligatory pilgrimage. And they bring back with them the usual, dates, figs, attar (Arabic perfume) and of course Zam Zam water from the wells of Zam Zam in Mekah. And other Muslims will crowd to them to taste and to share what these pilgrims bring back. Its a happy occassion. The next year it happens again.










The estate is alive. That what makes a community

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