When 3000 people pass through doors, toilets and hallways every day, breakdown is certain. For such cases, maintaining a place becomes just as important as its construction. Bnieuws spoke with the cleaners of BK, who are in a never ending battle against breakdown. What are their tasks, where do they come from, and is the job ever done?

Collapse is not only an end-of-world stage but marks beginnings and opens possibilities for familiar objects. It is a state where old values crumble, and only some things endure. This article explores these ideas by weaving a film review into lived experiences. What can architecture learn from film and art about what we preserve? What lives through mundane acts of preservation?

Have we lost our ability to explore the future with curiosity and imagination? Somehow it feels like our buildings are becoming more and more the same, even though we live in a time when we are finally aware of the great diversity of people and ideas. Why don't we see this revelation reflected in the buildings we make? Is it true that, out of fear of making mistakes, we have stopped daringly experimenting? It seems like a new crisis has occurred: our imagination is lost!