Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/grande-hotel-squatters-mediavilla/
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Colonial Luxury Hotel Now Colonized by Migrant Squatters
When Spanish photographer Héctor Mediavilla first walked into the remains of the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, he says he was immediately struck by the ghost-like quality of the building. The hotel, which originally opened in 1955 as one of, if not the most, luxurious hotels in Africa, has been decimated over the years and is now home to somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 squatters who have nowhere else to live.
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