Name the regime plainly
The Italian colonial project built the showcase; Eritrean caretakers decide what survives.
Keep the civic evidence
Marquees, rails, plaster seams, and ticket halls remain legible before they become decoration.
Credit Eritrean labor
The drawings came from offices; the city rose through hands, quarry dust, scaffolds, and repair.
Let beauty carry burden
Emerald walls and brass rules can honor craft while refusing the politics that commissioned them.