During the last week, architects and designers can submit their work to the Interior of the Year competition. The jury will assess the projects for 2023 and select the winners, who will be announced in May at DOX in Prague. According to director Peter Tschakert, a lot has changed since the competition was founded in … Read more
The architect will design the house so that it is perfect from his point of view. However, over the years, his work is transformed, people fix non-functional elements and modify many things to their liking. For eleven years, the Slovak photographer carefully documented these transformations in one functionalist house in Bratislava, which was built in … Read more
Previously, Czechs had no reason to go to the Hrzánská Passage in the backdrop of Prague’s Old Town. Shops with green window frames were home to companies that mainly targeted foreign tourists with their offer. But with the beginning of the new year, the offer changes drastically. Musicians and artists are based here, who will … Read more
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The construction of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris began in 1163 and was symbolically completed in 1260, however, several additions and improvements were added to the structure of the church in the following centuries. designed in 1859 by the architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet le Dick (Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814-1879) masterpiece – the spire of the … Read more
By Le Figaro with AFP Published on 01/27/2024 at 07:23, Updated on 01/27/2024 at 18:14 The goal of the U.S. government is to return these Native American artifacts to the tribes. Itza / stock.adobe.com The institution is complying with new government rules, requiring museums to obtain consent from descendants of indigenous tribes before displaying objects … Read more
Books, letters, furniture and paintings that belonged to the former British Prime Minister are on sale, until January 28, at the Winter Fair of Antiques and Designers. The «old lion» Winston Churchill, hero of the Second World War and British Prime Minister, was also a painter and Nobel Prize winner for literature: some of his … Read more
Every time a new building is unveiled in Athens, usually following a reconstruction, I wait anxiously to see the facade. The scale model, when it exists, may suggest the result but it does not show the quality of the materials, nor the integration of the new building into the surrounding environment. As a rule, the … Read more
The entrepreneur Joseph Oller inaugurated the “music hall” in 1893, shortly after creating the Moulin Rouge. Sixty years later, when the place had become a cinema, Bruno Coquatrix, who dreamed of a space dedicated to song, became the owner of L’Olympia. The Olympia, the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Mutuel have the same father, Joseph … Read more
Torre Cube I is a skyscraper in Guadalajara (Mexico), which measures 70 meters high and is in an area of high seismic intensity. Built between 2002 and 2005, it includes three vertical reinforced concrete blocks capable of withstanding earthquakes and acting as support in the event of a crisis. For Carme Pinós, Catalan architect and … Read more
IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES – An integral part of the landscape, New York’s bridges can be discovered on foot, aboard a yellow taxi or a subway to enjoy a breathtaking view of the city that never sleeps. Bathed by the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by three rivers, New York required the construction of an ever … Read more