Posts Tagged ‘paris’
Olympic start was a bit off – David Brussat
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Read MoreLet the games begin. XXXIII Summer Olympics – John Cardullo
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Read MoreFrom Paris to Providence – flashy, freaky, primitive, well suited to our times – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: 514 Broadway, the Prentice House, in Providence, where Anna and Laura Tirocchi had their dressmaking shop. Now known as the Wedding Cake House, it is a chic hotel. (Tirocchi Archive) Providence was once a world leader in textile manufacturing, including the design and manufacturing of…
Read MoreLast wrinkle at Notre Dame – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo, top: Proposal for a visitors center in former garage beneath Notre-Dame, in Paris. (Bas Smets) Paris’s mayor Anne Hildago has announced a proposed visitors center in an abandoned garage beneath Notre-Dame cathedral. Since visitors centers are notoriously ugly, this one qualifies as an odd duck.…
Read MoreParis without skyscrapers – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo, top: My favorite shot of central Paris taken during a trip there in 2003 There is an infinity of reasons why Paris should not build skyscrapers. Each street, each building, amounts to such a reason. You could say each citizen of Paris, each citizen of…
Read MoreThe Louvre puts its entire art collection online
The Louvre has made its entire art collection available online and for free. The new Collections database is comprised of 482,000 works from the French museum, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, the Tuileries and Carrousel gardens sculptures, plus “MNR” (Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery) pieces that were found after World War II and were…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, Oct. 30, 2020
Photo: The exodus leaving Paris, France last night as lockdown restrictions were going into effect at midnight. There is also widespread demonstrating with the familiar “yellow vests” happening throughout Paris. NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL More than 9 million Americans have been infected with coronavirus, as of yesterday. Success in controlling the coronavirus may have a lot…
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