Experts assessed possible damage from the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque :: Society :: RBC
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Фото: Chris McGrath / Getty Images) It will be impossible to completely remove and transfer to the museums the mosaics and murals of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Cathedral if it turns into a mosque, and the loss of the monument in its current form will be a big loss for humanity. This was […]
Photos: Making a home | The weekly country
Access to the main bedroom with a painting by Carlos Mínguez Carrasco. Door secured with a blue enamelled brick. Transforming an industrial space, a printing press to be more exact, of 227 square meters into a place for life does not seem, a priori, an easy task. And more if what is intended is to […]
Futurism: when radical architects imagined a world of capsules, nomadism and plastic | ICON Design
When uncertainty is the global currency, it becomes difficult to imagine what our life will be like in a year or even a month. The scourge of the pandemic covid-19 It will change the way we live and, above all, how we occupy public spaces. Architects and designers have already begun to reimagine the postcoronavirus […]
reconstruction in eight questions
DECRYPTION – From securing the building to the resumption of the construction site through the police investigation, all the questions that arise. The security of the site, prior to the reconstruction of the building, has not been completed. Since March 14 and the covid-19 crisis, the construction site has come to a halt. Jean-Christophe Marmara […]
the Eurogroup, a great architect of European solidarity?
“If you are a European politician and you have not published this weekend or Monday an opinion on the essential solidarity that must manifest in the European Union (EU), you missed your life “, had fun on the social network Twitter Olivier le Bussy, who follows European affairs for the Belgian daily Free, upstream of […]
Radomir Antic, hero of Atlético’s double, dies
Lorenzo Sanz, José Luis Capón, Gregorio Benito and this Monday he left Radomir Antic (Zitiste, Serbia, November 22, 1948), Serbian technical innovator, architect of the best stage of Atlético until the arrival of Cholo Simeone, a privileged commentator despite his bad Castilian and a football lover, as mourning as society in general in these long […]
At war with boredom: smoky trip-hop, spaghetti and souvenirs
With a Nazi architect “Walking is forbidden, we still have the process, in particular that of the artists”, jokes Guillaume Monsaingeon, curator of “Steps, Steps”, in a video that serves as a substitute for the exhibition. Open on February 8, the cultural event closed its doors but is not treading water. Since it is no […]
COAM workers protest against the dean for her “authoritarian” form of government | Madrid
Workers of the College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) have made a protest mourning on Friday against several decisions of the dean, Belén Hermida, who faces a strong internal opposition. The protest has as immediate cause the dismissals last week of five workers, but in the background there is great discomfort for the “authoritarian” way […]
Photos: The inhabited warehouse | The weekly country
The dining table is the T12 model, produced by the Danish firm HAY. The oak chairs, by Moller 77, and the lamp, by Louis Poulsen, are also Danish. The canvas is the work of homeowners (Mas-aqui Arte & Diseño), called Movement. In the Barcelona neighborhood of Gràcia, the book store was old, the courtyard was […]
The Sagrada Familia throws out the cache that has the premises in its enclosure | Culture
After 67 years of education in the values of Scouting, the Antoni Gaudí group in Barcelona has to leave their premises at the foot of the Sagrada Familia. Last October, members of the parish of the precinct were warned that by the end of this course they will no longer be able to continue there […]