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Jan 15 • 04:30 UTC • 🇪🇸 Spain • El País

From shopping mall only accessible by car to detention center: the thousand lives of the Helicoide

The article explores the controversial history and future of the Helicoide in Caracas, originally designed as a shopping center and famed in architecture, which now serves as a detention center.

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