The Neo-Andean architecture that has sprung up in Bolivia during Evo Morales’ Socialist presidency The pictured room is an example of a building that's called

The Neo-Andean architecture that has sprung up in Bolivia during Evo Morales’ Socialist presidency The pictured room is an example of a building that's called a "cholet", a multi-use commercial/residential building built by members of the Aymara ethnic group. They're stores and event halls with residences on top. The event halls are frequently used for extravagant parties and closing business deals (often at the some time). The design, interior and exterior, is crazy-dramatic, but beautiful...and very deliberately a display of wealth and status. It's both capitalist as fuck and the result of a generation of Aymaras building their own city in El Alto. The rest of this article has moments, but I just have trouble taking the writer seriously after reading that. And the obligatory link in response to all the concept art: https://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-trees-on-top-of-skyscrapers https://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-...