Earlier this year we had the opportunity to visit the famous Milan Cathedral. The Milan Cathedral is a building of amazing beauty and size. With 14.000 square yards, the Milan cathedral is the third largest cathedral in the world.
Some of the thousands of statues and ornaments of the Milan cathedral.
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In 1989 HRH the Prince of Wales wrote a remarkable book. It was called “A Vision Of Britain” and it was about the architecture, urban design and landscape design in England, and especially in its capitol city london. One of the most curious things about the book of HRH was not to be found in the book itself, it was the criticism. Britains most famous and distinguished architects stumbled over one other to tell the public HRH was not educated as an architect, nor had he ever made an architectural design of any significance. Therefore his views should be regarded as irrelevant to the development of British architecture. (more…)
La Defense, the most important business district of Paris, as seen from the Arc de Triomph.
One of the weird things about European cities is that they basically don’t have skylines. The general explanation for this is that many European cities have been founded in medieval times and the city lay-outs in general are still organized according to 15th century urban planning. Little alleys, curved streets, bridges and canals don’t leave to many open space suitable for building skyscrapers. (more…)
After years of planning, designing and building, Copenhagen inaugurated its new Opera House on january 15th, 2005. The Copenhagen Opera House is built on the waterfront of Holmen, a former Naval Dockyard. (more…)