Hiroshima A-bomb dome
If I choose black and white to show closest building that remained standing after the atomic bomb explosion, am I being over-dramatic? I hope I have a little leeway since the term 'ground-zero' has now been devalued. Instead, the Peace Memorial Museum uses the term "hypocentre" for the place underneath the bomb, and its exhibits talk about people being "exposed" as if they were photographic film. This is the site above which, on 6th August 1945, there was momentarily a second sun and over 200,000 people died in the initial explosion (population of Aberdeen, anyone?) though in total they estimate 260,000 as the total number including those that died years later from the after-effects. The building is now a UNESCO World Heritace Site and they floodlight it at night.