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
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 · 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 · 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
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Elizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Museum of Architecture, has announced that the scientific restoration of the Melnikov House, built in 1927-1929 and functioning as a museum for the past 50 years, will begin this year and last four years: “We plan to approve the restoration project by the end
Architecture · Faith · Art · Observations · Heritage
At one time I was surprised by the large number of abandoned churches in the Czech Republic. One fourteenth-century church, 200 km from Prague, had stood empty since 1968, when its roof collapsed and people were injured. That lasted until a young artist from the capital, Jakub Hadrava, took
Archaeology · Observations · Heritage · Science
A post of pride in our archaeologists! Scholars of the Centre for Palaeoart at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have launched the long-awaited project “Petroglyphs of the Lower Amur and Ussuri”, which has been in preparation since 2015 jointly with the Remote Sensing and
Architecture · Heritage · Paris · Nature
Winter in the Parc de Sceaux on the outskirts of Paris. The park was laid out in the late 17th century by André Le Nôtre, one of the most celebrated landscape architects in the world and the creator of the parks and gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, the Tuileries,
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“I found the painting of the monastery's bell tower complete. To my great regret, the painting has been done in oil paints in the former pale pink, banal colour, without the permission of the consistory, and consequently before the Commission's opinion was received. Having learnt from
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Education
In the courtyard of the Institute of History and Archives on Nikolskaya Street (remember that Gothic blue façade with the unicorn, the lion and the spires?) there is a small building in the Russian style, a terem. In the days of the Print Yard, the terem housed the proofreading workshop