Opinion | Missing old-style ‘cool’ architecture in Turkey

I particularly enjoyed the portion of Philip Kennicott’s Jan. 3 front-page Climate Solutions column, “The vanishing architecture of cool,” that dealt with his visit to Diyarbakir, Turkey.

My wife and I were there in 2005 for a family wedding and toured some of the atmospheric old-town neighborhoods that have since been destroyed by the government and replaced with inferior substitutes, as Mr. Kennicott noted. From the standpoint of comfort, aesthetics and energy efficiency, it’s such a shame that traditional architecture was not used in these soulless replacements.