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Through La Chapelle, in Search of the Croix de l'Evangile 14 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
At the bottom of the Rue Marx Dormoy, near the La Chapelle Metro station sits Le Capucin. It's the epitome of the banal Parisian cafe, the kind of place where you can still eat hard boiled eggs at the...
Concrete Paris: A new Invisible Paris walking tour 31 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
Now available on Apple and Android smart devices, a 20th century architectural tour of the city’s 16th arrondissement.This new walk, created in association with Pocket Guide, takes you across the the ...
The Paris Archives: Died on the 4th of July 4 Jul 2013 | 02:04 am
At around 10.45am on July 4th 1905, a young policeman succumbed to a gunshot wound he had received earlier that day. This was not the first such incident that year in Paris - or even in the previous 3...
The Cité 212: Where Social Housing Meets the History of Aviation 27 Jun 2013 | 02:42 am
Living within sight of an airport may seem undesirable today, but there was a time when such locations were considered glamorous. Although the areas surrounding the Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports...
A Pigeon's Eye View of Paris 5 Jun 2013 | 05:01 pm
Patrice Rambaud aka 'L'œil du pigeon' is a trained architect and talented urban illustrator with a fantastic eye for Paris. He has already self-published an atmospheric and offbeat look at the city's ...
I Remember When This Will All Be Trees 1 Jun 2013 | 03:23 am
A visit to what will become, in 2014, the city's first forest. You need a lot of imagination to visualise a forest in this location. It looks more like an oversight or a service road, squeezed betwee...
On Cities and Silence 17 May 2013 | 12:23 pm
After publishing books on the quiet corners of London and Amsterdam, artist and writer Siobhan Wall has now focussed her attentions on Paris. I ask her what attracts her at once to cities and silence,...
Marcel Hennequet: An Uncelebrated Poet of Paris 26 Apr 2013 | 11:00 pm
The name Marcel Hennequet may be largely forgotten in Paris today, but it is engraved into some of the most imaginative interwar buildings in the city. What links the Boulevard Periere in the 17th wi...
Life Begins at 40: Has the Olympiades Development Reached Maturity? 12 Apr 2013 | 12:49 am
No other part of Paris has undergone such a radical transformation as the 13th arrondissement in the last 50 years, and nowhere is this more visible than at the Olympiades development, celebrating its...
The Ruins of Neuilly-sur-Seine 28 Mar 2013 | 12:57 am
Although officially the richest town in France, Neuilly-sur-Seine is built within a landscape of ruins. In search of these vestiges of destruction amongst the modern-day architecture of affluence. Ru...
