TUMBLING OLD OTTOMAN WOODEN HOUSE

ANADOLU KAVAĞI, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Orhan Pamuk, the great Istanbul-immersed Nobel Prize-winning author, often writes about the loss of the old wooden Ottoman houses that used to line everything from the backstreets in poor areas to privileged locations along the Bosphorus waterfront.

Fires, neglect and widespread modern development has slain many of the quaint old structures.

Here, at the port of Andadolu Kavagi, almost to the edge of the Black Sea, an old wooden house is about to tumble into the Asian side shore of the Bosphorus.

It is flanked by a careworn, but still occupied house on one side and a modernized, well cared for waterfront home on the other.