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the land was called circus plat, because visiting circuses used to set up that kenneth morrison is a professor of modern history. at less does de monfort university in the u. k. he's written for books on the balkans, including one about, sorry, a bose landmark holiday in the design of the building was quite controversial. that was designed by this thought able architect, events that i was through buildings. you can find all over the city, the skill model, the original skill model of the hotel was and was built in yellow was constructed of yellow plastic. but when the builders were working on the building actually started to construct the facade, and they saw that the facade was actually yellow. even that i said that they came quite a short, they didn't expect the building itself actually to be mostly an architect. even stress came up with a new hotel concept what he called a city in a hotel which you have no need to leave. busy floors and corridors which will open into a spacious lobby, giving the illusion of greater size. the holiday in the grand opening was on the 6th of october, 1

my name is kenneth morrison and professor view to p in history. one of my key research interests in the history of war, hotel war hotels are buildings that function as normal hotels, but often in the context of real instability. so i look at numerous hotels. saudi was holiday in beta, it's commodore, but also the hotel you'd open belfast for example, the lead your palace into kasey, a cyprus. all of these hotels have continued to function throughout this period of instability. some are in the real midst of an urban conflict. a war hotel emerges out of a history where journalists over a long period before was start of somehow find it a congenial place to be a watering hole convenient near the center of activity in the city where the politics happens, where the culture happens, where you meet people, the hotels which made a route to the tourist center of the middle east. and i'm john who will be and i've long been a reporter, reporting more over the world. and therefore, i been in wars and most memorable amongst these was the experience of reporting