When the Russian Orthodox Church commissioned a new cathedral in Paris, on the banks of the Seine, they turned to architect Jean-Michael Wilmotte. He has given them a spectacular building, its golden onion domes contrasting with its neighbour the Eiffel Tower. The new cathedral is estimated to have cost 100 million euros. It’s also been controversial, seen by critics as an attempt by Moscow to project itself as a powerful, religious country.
It won the Lubetkin Prize and introduced the award-winning designs of the veteran British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to Australia. And it is vast - filling an entire city block. But Grimshaw has form on railway stations; he was the man who designed Waterloo International.
Italian architect Renzo Piano lives in Paris and has just completed the remarkable Palais de Justice. It is almost as striking as the Pompidou Centre which Piano and Richard Rogers created in 1974. Piano, a Pritzker Prize winner, is a veteran of European architects, noted for buildings such as th...
Delayed by a year because of the Coronavirus pandemic, Expo 2020 is ready and waiting. In the city built on sand, 190 pavilions take us back to the future, not only in their contents but in their cutting-edge design; from the Mobility Pavilion by the practice of British super-architect Lord Foste...
