Meanwhile in Liverpool’s Kensington… (location of one of the other ‘Peoples Pavilions’) there are more abandoned houses. However these abandoned houses happen to be on the main gateway route into Liverpool from the M62. So since thousands of tourists will be driving past them to visit the European Capital of Culture in 2008, they had to be boarded up with ‘arty’ boards, with images of ‘culture’, not just your average OSB. These would make some great SuperWindowTables…
The situation is comparable to the Potemkin villages of 18th century Russia; fake settlements erected to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. Apparently Russian minister Potemkin had hollow facades of villages constructed in order to impress the monarch with the value of her new conquests, enhancing his standing in the empress’s eyes. But will it fool the tourists?
