we are looking at terracotta, which is warmer. we are looking for a variety of colors in the terracotta to lighten up or make the building and little more approachable, if you will. commissioner antonini: i think it is a good project, and there has been a lot of work going into the design. somebody did make a reference to things that did not fit in. i grew up there, and they have done a wonderful job on their main street. not the areas by hacienda park, although that is done pretty well for what it is. it is a commercial park. when i grew up, they had a lot of ugly 1950's buildings, where they tore down victorians and older buildings. subsequently, they have torn down the ugly 50's buildings and put up contextual buildings out of wood, out of masonry. it seamlessly fits together, and that is why they draw thousands of people for parades. the mile down the main street -- they have a lot of parades' there. the cannot build things that fit in from the older buildings around them without mimicking them. it can be very attractive. anyw

an animist terracotta statue from the fourteenth century like this is priceless, both in its monetaryue and its cultural meaning. >> the taliban destroyed the buddha in afghanistan, what happened in timbuktu is quite the same. heritage is important for people because we all need to have the sense that we have an existence in the past. if someone wants to destroy this, it's clear if someone want to destroy this idea of the past, it's clear that this person wants to destroy the soul of malian people. culture is about the present as well as the past. women i met collecting food aid in bamako told me they fled the north because the jihadis-- many of them foreigners-- force them to wear a full face veil, like gulf arabs or afghans, not malians. >> ( translated ): we're a democratic, sovereign, secular republic. we never expected anyone to impose the sharia on us. we're in our own country so we should be free to behave as we wish. >> reporter: les sofas de la republique-- warriors of the republic-- musicians defending malian culture and democracy. they're still free to express themselves in