Tag: Architecture and urbanism
in Versailles, eleven renovated rooms tell the history of the castle
On the occasion of Heritage Days 2023, the Palace of Versailles is inaugurating a new gallery of the history of the castle with eleven renovated rooms which tell – with…
kyiv and Lviv sites listed as World Heritage in Danger
The Saint Sophia Cathedral and monastic buildings in Kiev are part of the heritage of humanity in danger, as is the historic center of Lviv (West), due to the Russian…
Very polluting, the building must make its green “revolution”
It is the sector that emits the most greenhouse gases on a global scale. Building is responsible for 37% of the emissions that cause climate change, and it is growing.…
Plan to transform commercial areas on the outskirts: “The first measures relate to simplification”
The government presents this Monday a major plan for the transformation of “ugly France”! This is what we call these large commercial zones which have sprouted like mushrooms on the…
Why it’s high time to leave the cities
By Guillaume Faburel, Lumière Lyon 2 University If the process of globalized urbanization does not seem to want to mark time, the geographer Guillaume Faburel invites us to consider the…
Greece in “absolute vigilance”, Athens unprepared for high heat
In Greece, the thermometer has been flirting with 40°C for ten days and heat waves follow one another. While firefighters are dealing with a series of fires across the country,…
four disaster victims identified
Four of the six bodies extracted from the collapse of a building in Marseille on Sunday have now been identified, a 74-year-old man and his wife of the same age,…
an apartment building collapses in the center of Marseille
At least five people were injured in the collapse of a four-storey building overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Marseille, but the toll could be much heavier. In 2018, two…
the stool, base of the new spire, is ready for final assembly
Progress report for the reconstruction of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral – This week, the wooden stool, that is to say the base on which the spire rests,…
Paris 2024 Olympics: D-500 and major upheavals for Ile-de-France residents
In 500 days, it will be the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Work continues in the capital and in the Ile-de-France region to ensure that all buildings…