Background I wanted to understand why the old Legehar train station is still here. A shadow of its once central role. Its decline and decay are already a seperate story in themselves, told on this map. But while researching this old building, I realised something unexpected: La Gare’s story is far from over. A new district at the heart of the city Today, La Gare is best understood not as a transport site, but as the core of one of Addis Ababa’s most ambitious inner-city redevelopment projects. The area around the former station is being transformed into a dense, mixed-use district with towers…