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Architecture · Museums · Society · Paris
The Louvre suspends its expansion competition shortly before the jury vote
The Louvre has suspended indefinitely the competition for the museum's expansion project, announced in June 2025. The decision was taken less than a week before the jury was due to vote on the winner. The Louvre - Nouvelle Renaissance project, announced by Macron in January 2025, was meant to
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Former Hotel du Nord in Odessa, where Pushkin stayed in the summer of 1823
The house in Odessa where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin lived. The Hotel du Nord stood here, and Pushkin stayed in it for a month in the summer of 1823. The street was then called Italianskaya; in 1880 it was renamed Pushkinskaya. In 1959 a Literary Memorial Museum was opened here
Architecture · Art · Paris
Marcel Gaumont made a plaster relief for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 1936
A Centaur with a Child. Plaster relief made by Marcel Gaumont in 1936 for the decoration of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Coming Up · Architecture · Art
Intervals Festival of media art to be held in Nizhny Novgorod from 23 to 26 April
⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year? With the regular fixtures, of course. In April, from the 23rd to the 26th, Nizhny Novgorod will once again host the Intervals Festival, the international media art festival: the first of its kind in Russia, running
Coming Up · Architecture · Society
Olympic Cauldron Installed on Milan's Arch of Peace
In just a week the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will open in Milan and Cortina
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
Church of the Merciful Saviour in Spass and Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Korino
Two church ensembles in the Yaroslavl Region granted official heritage status and entered in the unified state register. The first is the Church of the Saviour the All-Merciful in the village of Spass on the left bank of the Volga, built at the very beginning of the 19th century.
Architecture · Faith · Moscow
In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace
In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace. It later came to be called the Upper Saviour Cathedral (Verkhospassky Sobor). In 1682 three palace churches, those of the Resurrection "Slovushchy", of
Architecture · Observations · Society · Rome
Rome introduces a 2 euro charge for tourists to approach the Trevi Fountain
From Monday, a close-up view of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain will cost money. The price for tourists and non-residents of Rome is 2 euros. The system will operate daily from 09:00 to 22:00, except on Mondays and Fridays, when public access will open at
NB! · Architecture · People
Alex Chinneck and His "Slipping" House
Architecture · Art · People
Alex Chinneck creates the illusion of a sliding brick house facade in Margate
The Face Has Slipped. An installation by the British artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck in the town of Margate, in the county of Kent, Great Britain. The project is a visual illusion in which the façade of a brick house appears to be "sliding" downwards and partly detaching
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · London · Heritage
This year Sarah Mullally will formally take up the office of Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming not only the first woman to hold it but also the first occupant of the palace since its recent reconstruction
Lambeth Palace in London, for eight centuries the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, has been restored for the first time in 70 years. The £40 million reconstruction was devoted to the restoration and conservation of the building's historic elements. The palace serves as the archbishop's