ADDIS ABABA | Lideta District Revitalization | U/C

[Yoniii]

Nice update, these condominiums looks much better than the "1st generation".

[abesha]

Exactly what I was gonna say. SO MUCH better!!!!!! Uuufffff finally! There's still room for improvement, but I can live with this. The earlier monstrosities will have to be refinished at some point. Just horrid.

[yosef]

Those look pretty good. There are some much improved designs Ive seen for them the last few days...I saw these on the Govt. Press Agency website as well, Im not sure if its Lideta or where they are located though:

[abesha]

Even the color scheme is 100x better, forget the design.

[Vildana]

Originally Posted by yosef

Those look pretty good. There are some much improved designs Ive seen for them the last few days...I saw these on the Govt. Press Agency website as well, Im not sure if its Lideta or where they are located though:

These are built behind Balcha hospital,They are more expensive than the first generation ,are intended for middle income buyers

[mike7743]

They're still incredibly ugly and will be an eye sore in the future but definitely an improvement over the current slums. I wish the designers/engineers and the builders would all go to a different country for a week or so just to learn how construction is done. It doesn't even have to be in the developed world. A city like Luanda can teach these incredibly undereducated folks on how to build a city. Original renders rarely match the finished product in Addis. Lol!

[yosef]

thanks Vildana.

[Roha]

Originally Posted by abnet

Update
From tamiru @ panoramio



Not only they built the area very fast they widen the asphalt too

This look like light steel construction. Is this goverment built too? They just need to work on the color.

[FKebede]

Here is a video showing the progress of the work in the Lideta project

[abesha]

Thanks for posting. It's a huge project.

What is wrong with ETV, Walta, etc? My $100 point and shoot camera shoots 1000% better quality video than this. Unbelievable.

[FKebede]

Originally Posted by abesha

Thanks for posting. It's a huge project.

What is wrong with ETV, Walta, etc? My $100 point and shoot camera shoots 1000% better quality video than this. Unbelievable.

abesha my mobile phone can take better quality footage than this,, I dont know what kind of outdated camera they are using... that's what happens when one TV station take monopoly of the air wave,,no competition means no quality,,,in every thing not only TV.

[Yoniii]

The poor quality is due to high compressing of the original video source to minimize the file size.

[abnet]

More pictures of the Lideta development from Desta Keremela's facebook page
I went to Tesfa Kokeb Junior highschool which is in the middle of these development and the only one left untouched.









http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

[abesha]

Progressing nicely!

[yosef]

the size (scale) of the whole program is amazing, can anyone map it out using google earth or any other map?


edit: great updates by the way abnet


edit#2: ↓↓ thanks Roha!

[Roha]

[Simfan34]

This is what I mean by density! I'm not fond of the individual block layout, but this is a big step in the right direction. But this isn't in the old airport grounds.

But I'd like to see all the slums south of this area razed. Give the land between the ring road and road running through the airport to the golf course.

[mike7743]

Any updates on this project?

Edit:

Oops, sorry I thought the last post was last year.

[mike7743]

And of course the final product will look nothing like the original render. I think Addis might be the only place in the world where those two will never match. Lol!

[Skyliner123]

Lideta condominiums can be seen in the background