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Can Kenya's iconic buildings last 100 years?

The KICC, Times Tower and CBK Pension Tower. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Do you pause to wonder, as you wander in the city, if the skyscrapers that tower all around you will live to be colossal Methuselahs or will, one day, in the distant future, give way to grander, more imposing successors?

That the marvels of our time, these picturesque masterpieces, will one day bow out? As humans head to their inevitable end, so do buildings. Even as they stand ever so majestically, the end is always in sight.

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