https://www.scmp.com/rss/524119/feed Le Corbusier: Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, he was a highly influential Swiss-French architect, designer, urban planner, writer, and artist. A pioneer of modern architecture and the International Style, he developed the "Five Points of Architecture" and authored seminal texts like "Vers une architecture". en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Adele Brunner Adele Brunner Frenchman Vincent Sahuc is living proof that one can never say never. Having renovated a ground-floor flat on Lamma Island in 2018, he swore he wouldn’t go through the process again. And yet … fast forward to today and he’s just completed the refurbishment of another 700 sq ft flat in a village house on Lamma, complete with a similarly sized rooftop. Dubbed “The Lookout” by Sahuc and his partner, Jerome Sozzi, an arts logistics professional, also from France, the 1980s-built apartment had never... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/design-interiors/article/3329760/how-le-corbusier-and-french-bubble-houses-inspired-lamma-island-renovation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/design-interiors/article/3329760/how-le-corbusier-and-french-bubble-houses-inspired-lamma-island-renovation?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:00:09 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Between hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, reopening the doors to Notre-Dame Cathedral and marking 80 years since the Normandy landings, 2024 was a banner year for tourism in France. More than 100 million travellers visited the country, spending a record €71 billion (US$84 billion) – 12 per cent more than in 2023. And the bulk of them, unsurprisingly, spent considerable time in Paris. There is reason to visit the French capital this summer too – from the David Hockney retrospective at the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3317240/5-great-places-stay-paris-side-trip-countryside-seaside?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3317240/5-great-places-stay-paris-side-trip-countryside-seaside?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:15:07 +0000 Jacqueline Kot Jacqueline Kot There is no doubt that architecture is a creative discipline. Once you factor in the technical aspects crucial to the process, it is even more impressive that art and engineering can come together for a visual spectacle with a civic purpose. Throughout history, there is no shortage of such examples, whether it is the buildings by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona or modern landmarks such as Hong Kong’s very own M+ museum by Herzog & de Meuron. Hence, there is no reason we can’t appreciate architectural... https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/article/3314326/louvre-paris-hong-kongs-m-finding-art-architecture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/article/3314326/louvre-paris-hong-kongs-m-finding-art-architecture?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:00:10 +0000