Architecture · Faith · Heritage

Fire on scaffolding around spire of Rouen Cathedral extinguished

Firefighters have finished extinguishing the blaze at Rouen Cathedral. Repairs had been under way at the cathedral for the past several years, and its 151-metre spire was surrounded by scaffolding, where the fire broke out. Rouen Cathedral has burned more than once in its long history: in 841 a

NB! · Architecture · Cinema · People

Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan was filmed at a temple in Paestum, not on the Acropolis

Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan, who danced in 1921 in the temples of the Acropolis. The scenes with Redgrave were filmed not on the Acropolis, as the Doric columns show, but in a Doric temple at Paestum, or Poseidonia, a Greek colony founded in the late seventh century BC in

Archive · Architecture · Paris

Paris 1937 competition design by unknown author resembles the Syuyumbike Tower in Kazan

In 1937 a design was submitted to the architectural competition of the International Exhibition in Paris that bears a suspicious resemblance to the 58-metre Söyembikä Tower in Kazan. Since no information about the authorship of the Parisian competition drawing has survived to our day, one is left to guess

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Inside the Sagrada Família in Barcelona

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The Theatre at Epidaurus, built in the 340s BC, and its festival held since 1955

Spectators at Sophocles' "Antigone" in the ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus in 1956. The theatre at Epidaurus is the best preserved of all the theatres of Ancient Greece. The amphitheatre, built to seat fifteen thousand spectators in the 340s BC close to the Asclepieion, not far from

Four aerial reconstructions of the site: the Circus of Caligula and Vatican Necropolis in the 1st and 2nd centuries, St Peter’s Basilica in the 4th and 21st.

Architecture · Faith · Rome

How the Vatican site changed from the Circus of Caligula to St Peter’s Basilica

The Circus of Caligula Gradually Becomes an Elegant Vatican. A marvellous infographic showing the evolution of the site on which St Peter's Basilica was built in the fourth century, and which acquired its present appearance at the end of the sixteenth century thanks to Michelangelo

A mesh LED panel with blue, red and green lights on a facade, seen from below, with white ventilation pipes and glass structures behind.

Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris

The author criticises national culture becoming a backdrop for corporate interests

The façade of the Centre Pompidou has been entirely covered in LED strips, creating a vast canvas for Nike advertising. It is dreadful when national culture becomes nothing more than a backing for corporate interests