Architecture · Faith · Heritage
The golden dove on the neo-Baroque façade of Amsterdam's De Duif church recalls the seventeenth century, when a clandestine Catholic congregation, Het Vrededuifje, the "Little Dove of Peace", stood on the site of this church. When all religions were formally put on an equal footing
Architecture · Faith · Society
On 10 June, the centenary of Gaudí's death, Pope Leo XIV consecrated the Tower of Jesus Christ, the central and tallest of the eighteen towers of the Sagrada Família. The basilica has risen to 172.5 metres and has officially become the tallest church in the world. Yet
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Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
At Saint Petersburg's House of Radio, the restoration of the grand antechamber has been completed. The method chosen here is rather unusual: not a return to a single era, but a combination of different historical layers: pre-revolutionary, Soviet, perestroika-era and contemporary. Coffered ceilings, Pompeian-style murals,
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
Well, Muscovites will long remember the architect Kuznetsov and other officials of the city administration with kind words, as they look at the gaps in the historic fabric of the centre, filled with highly valuable items of elite real estate. Take, for instance, the site of the former Baldina apartment
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Paris
The installation La Caverne du Pont-Neuf on the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris. On the night of 20 to 21 May 2026 the bridge was covered by an inflatable structure of printed fabric depicting snow-covered cliffs, 120 metres long and about 18 metres high. Its form
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris! Officials very rarely, but still occasionally, manage to discharge their duties properly; in this case they needed the direct participation of the residents of the neighbourhood, who proposed precisely this design in place of the
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"Everything here is in miniature: a little avenue of lime trees, a pond the size of an aquarium, a little garden and park, little trees, but you stroll about a time or two, look closely, and the impression of smallness vanishes." So Anton Chekhov described the Melikhovo estate
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Architecture · Faith · Observations · Society · Paris
In the Marais, inside the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, vintage clothes are sold at weekends. There are usually plenty of tourists here, eager to capture a thoroughly Parisian combination: Baroque-Classicist architecture and fashionable dress. This is a working church, which shares its premises with a second-
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage · People
A new monument to Alexander Tairov and Alisa Koonen, founders of Moscow's legendary Kamerny Theatre, on Tverskoy Boulevard, where they staged upheavals and discoveries in world theatre. Today the Kamerny is called legendary because it has literally entered the textbooks and become part of the great heritage of
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The construction of a new bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, in the bed of the Vodootvodny Canal. The bridge will pass beneath the Maly Kamenny Bridge. Its total length will be about 170 metres