to me it looks like the slum that "A Clock Work Orange" was filmed in.

i feel your pain, here in Canada our government keeps building Palaces and buying over priced crap to stuff them with. ($1.8 Million for a painting of 3 lines; "The Voice of Fire" or some such nonsense)

http://temagami.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/22101999/c1c.htm