Montparnasse Tower: Paris’s most controversial skyscraper. The Tour Montparnasse – the Montparnasse Tower – is one of the most divisive landmarks in Paris. Rising 210 metres (689 feet) high, it was the city’s tallest building until 2022, when it was surpassed by the Tour Hekla in La Défense district. When Paris sought to modernize in the 1960s, theContinue reading “Montparnasse Tower: Paris’s most controversial skyscraper.”
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Put a ring on it – Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower
Put a ring on it – Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower.
Petit Palais – let’s party at the Little Palace, Paris
Petit Palais – let’s party at the Little Palace, Paris.
Pop Up Paris
Pop Up Paris.
Around Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 14th arrondissement – May 2022
Around Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 14th arrondissement – May 2022.
Rue Charlemagne, 4th arrondissement – January 2022
Rue Charlemagne, 4th arrondissement – February 2022.
A puzzling fresco – the Tangram Building, Paris
A puzzling fresco – the Tangram Building, Paris. The Tangram Building in Paris is a building with a large, coloured fresco in enamelled glass, in the design of a tangram. A tangram is a puzzle consisting of flat polygons, called tans, which are constructed to form shapes. The tans are used to create minimalist designs that are: ‘eitherContinue reading “A puzzling fresco – the Tangram Building, Paris”
Richard Rogers, Paris Pompidou Centre and his mother’s clay pots
Richard Rogers, Paris Pompidou Centre and his mother’s white pots. Italian-born British architect Richard Rogers, designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, died in London at the age of 88 on 18 December 2021. Although he worked on many prominent buildings, such as London’s Millennium Dome and Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, he is best knownContinue reading “Richard Rogers, Paris Pompidou Centre and his mother’s clay pots”
Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the Victor Hugo museum is an exhibition, from 10 June to 21 November 2021, called Dans L’Intimité du Genie – In the Intimacy of Genius – with Hugo’s paintings, drawings, engravings, and artwork. Hence, it’s time to re-read Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) is set inContinue reading “Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”
French architects Lacaton & Vassal – thoughtful and respectful approach to apartment living
French architects Lacaton & Vassal – thoughtful and respectful approach to apartment living. In April 2021, French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal were announced the winners of the prestigious 2021 Pritzker Prize, called the Nobel of Architecture. Together, Lacaton and Vassal design low-impact homes and public buildings based upon natural ecological responses to current livingContinue reading “French architects Lacaton & Vassal – thoughtful and respectful approach to apartment living”