Architecture · Books · Observations · Heritage
“A bright spring day was drawing towards evening; small rosy clouds stood high in the clear sky and seemed not to drift past but to sink into the very depths of the blue. Before the open window of a handsome house, in one of the outlying streets of the provincial
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Observations
Never before had I seen a monument to ore. Still less a double one. The plaques commemorate the days on which the first and the billionth tonnes of iron ore were extracted at the quarry of the Mikhailovsky GOK in 1960 and 2004 respectively
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Society
The KMA: this business must be pursued with the utmost energy. Such is the mention of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly on the pedestal of the monument to Lenin in the central square of the city of Zheleznogorsk in Kursk Oblast, beside one of the largest iron-ore open-pit mines
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
At a meeting of activists and conservationists held as part of the banner exhibition "Stained Glass of Saint Petersburg. Losses. Protection. Rescue" in Saint Petersburg, the burning question "How can a concerned citizen protect the architectural decoration of historic buildings?" was discussed, and a set of
Architecture · Moscow · Humour
The architect Dmitry Lurie relates that the Loan Treasury building of 1913-15 in Nastasyinsky Lane in Moscow has preserved a safe whose doors have stood unopened since 1917, so that, purely in theory, what lies inside is pre-revolutionary air. In Dmitry's photograph the marks left by
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
In the enfilade of the main building of the Museum of Architecture, an exhibition has opened that continues my beloved 2020 Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art. If you remember, the selection of works for the 2nd Triennial at Garage was built on recommendations from artists who had taken part in
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NB! · Architecture · Art · Observations · Paris
Architecture · The East · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris
Diagram of the erection of the Luxor Obelisk in Paris, presented by Muhammad Ali, ruler of Egypt, to France and to Charles X, the last of the Bourbons to reign in fact, in the 1830s. The engraving on the other side of the pedestal shows the dismantling of the obelisk
Architecture · Moscow · Science · People
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower. The first broadcast of the Comintern Television Tower was a concert of Russian music featuring Nadezhda Obukhova and Boris Evlakhov. As you pass this tower on Shabolovka, know that its engineering solution, devised and
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Paris · Nature
The original roof of Notre-Dame, a masterpiece of engineering, was built in the twelfth century from 13,000 oaks, which is why it was called la forêt (the forest), while the spire was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. After Macron announced that traditional techniques and materials had been chosen
Architecture · Heritage · Paris · Nature
In France, 200-year-old oaks that are to be felled for the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris have been blessed. For the restoration of the 96-metre spire, enormous oaks have been chosen, fifty metres tall, with trunks more than a metre in diameter, from