View of An icon of brutalist architecture, the Hôtel du Lac in Tunis is threatened with demolition. Completed in 1973 with its 10 floors in the shape of an inverted pyramid, the building has entered a long agony since its abandonment in the early 2000s."The Hôtel du Lac", designed in the Brutalist style by Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani in downtown Tunis on October 4,2025.(Yassine Mahjoub/SIPA)//MAHJOUBYASSINE_BY2F3620/Credit:Yassine Mahjoub/SIPA/2510042103