The work of a lifetime The Sagrada Familia that has become the symbol of Barcelona is inseparable from its creator, the brilliant architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Thanks to this project, to which Gaudi devoted himself for four decades, this modest Catalan boilermaker's son became one of the w ...
Joseph Lakanal. As the first botanical garden in the capital, it is now classified as a historical monument and remarkable garden for its natural and architectural heritage. An exceptional heritage Much more than just a green space, the Jardin des Plantes in Paris bears witness to the work of scien ...
ated near Montpellier in the Hérault department. When visiting this city today, it is hard to imagine that it was built from scratch... And yet, the architect Jean Balladur virtually brought into existence a seaside resort with a unique style on a site that was once just a swamp. Because it was bu ...
to raise a lasting monument worthy of French Science." 2- Its dome was designed by Gustave Eiffel. For this project, Raphaël Bischoffsheim enlisted the architect Charles Garnier, who designed the original 15 buildings of the Nice Observatory. As for the famous white dome housing the main telescope ...
nces reminds us that crowned heads, writers, and artists came here to seek inspiration and rest. One can also see the Cabanon Le Corbusier, which the architect nicknamed "my castle on the French Riviera," and the Villa E-1027 by decorator and architect Eileen Gray, built in 1924 on the seaside. In ...
e Benesse Art Site Naoshima was established there in the late 1980s by Benesse company president Soichiro Fukutake, with the complicity of the famous architect Tadao Ando. The architect notably designed, from 1989 to 1992, a hotel complex coupled with a museum: the Benesse House. This luxury hote ...
other cultural and artistic initiatives joined the Friche project. In 1995, the City of Marseille became the owner of the site and collaborated with the architect Jean Nouvel to rehabilitate the site. The existing premises were preserved and fitted out according to the architect's plans, with wo ...
pink, green, and blue buildings adorned with floral friezes typical of Viennese Secession. The Italian influence is noticeable in the baroque-style architecture of the Town Hall, with its 18th-century clock tower, and in the Fountain of the Three Rivers of Carniola. This monument is also known as ...
is Hasbro in the United States and Canada and Mattel in the rest of the world. History of Scrabble Scrabble was born from the imagination of New York architect Alfred Butts. Constrained by unemployment due to the 1929 crisis, he launched a first version of the game, called Lexiko, as early as 1931. ...
ll faces. But a system of axes, whose mechanism was patented by its creator, is hidden at the center of the cube. 2- It was invented by a professor of architecture. Contrary to what one might think, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, Ernö Rubik, is not a mathematician but a Hungarian architect and d ...
atform again arouses controversy. This giant shopping mall, named 'Aéroville', is to house high-end stores and services. This project designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc should be built in 2008 for an opening in 2012. Other expansion projects are also underway. A subway in the a ...
s, includes, among other changes, the development of an additional hectare of pedestrian and landscaped area. To make this avenue more attractive, especially for pedestrians, architect Philippe Chiambaretta, commissioned by the Champs-Élysées Committee, proposes to bring more nature and culture t ...
metres on each side and 300 metres high'. The project of the contractor Gustave Eiffel, the engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, and the architect Stephen Sauvestre was finally selected from 107 projects. Gustave Eiffel signed an agreement with the government on January 8, 1887. Thi ...
ed in the Zainabad garden in Burhampur. Out of love for this woman, the emperor decided to build the most beautiful mausoleum: the Taj Mahal. The main architect of this project was Usad Ahmad of Lahore. The Work began in 1631 and was completed only 17 years later in 1648. The state of Uttar Pr ...
(Tower of the Clerics), located in the eponymous street, is the highest tower in Portugal. Built in the second half of the 18th century by the Italian architect Nicolau Nasoni, it stands 76 meters high and has 225 steps. From the top of this granite tower, you will have a panoramic view of the city, ...
�mie de Rothschild became a regular visitor, making it the favored meeting place for the aristocracy, as well as the finance and business worlds. In 1925, architect Henry Jacques Le Même (1897-1997) created the concept of the "skier's chalet" at the request of Baroness Noémie de Rothschild. This ...
led the Pullman Orient-Express. This train primarily offers dinner journeys departing from Paris. More recently, the Orient Express company entrusted architect Maxime d’Angeac with the mission of reviving this legendary train by reinterpreting the decor of the Nostalgie-Istanbul-Orient-Express. T ...
w). This website lists artists and creators in various artistic fields (literature, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, theater, music, dance, architecture and design, object and installation). It pays tribute to past artists (through biographies and galleries of works) and provides updates ...
of the history and life of the Royal Saltworks from the 18th century to the present day. This immersion in the prolific and genius thinking of its architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux includes seven 'tableaux' of real or imaginary images: prestige, work, destruction, liberation, renewal, the future an ...
he Chinese culture is mixed with various other influences, Japanese and Western in particular, so that the cities offer an amazing mix of traditional architecture and avant-garde buildings. More pleasant than mainland China in terms of traveler friendliness, infrastructure and cleanliness, this d ...
