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Tag Archives: SOS Paris
Mary Gallagher: Saving Paris
On Thursday, Mary Campbell Gallagher, a leader in the crusade to save Paris from skyscrapers, had an oped in Le Figaro, one of the capital’s leading newspapers in addition to Le Monde. With her permission I republish it as a … Continue reading
Update: Vandals versus Paris
Mary Campbell Gallagher, founder and president of the International Coalition for the Preservation of Paris and U.S. liaison to SOS Paris, has issued a shot over the bow of the vandals at the city’s gates. Her shot, in the form … Continue reading
Taking the plunge in Paris
If you have scratched your head at what looks like civic suicide in Paris, manifested by a desire to attack its beauty, an essay by Stephane Kirkland, “Paris in the Twenty-First Century,” might prove interesting. It appears that Parisian modernists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Grand Paris, Haussmann, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Modern Architecture, Paris, Reinvent Paris, SOS Paris, Stephane Kirkland
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Paris, in danger, needs you
Here is a video, “SOS Paris: Notre capitale a besoin de nous,” running four and a half minutes of mostly still shots adding up, in a most piquant manner, to the danger facing Paris if its mayor has her way. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged France, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Mayor Hidalgo, Paris, SOS Paris, Video
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“Reinvent” (destroy) Paris
Here is the Reinventing Paris video displaying, in quick succession, the 23 finalists for 23 development sites in a contest sponsored by the municipality under Mayor Anne Hidalgo. The text is in French, and I cannot therefore reconcile why it refers … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged Atlantic, Buddy Cianci, CityLab, Feargus O'Sullivan, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris, Reinvent Paris, SOS Paris, Transform Providence
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See Paris while it lasts
Many years ago I marveled at the Art Deco building that houses La Samaritaine department store along the Seine. And I recall eating at the café behind the giant letters on top. That end of the building will survive, at … Continue reading
BIG copies the future!
It is alleged that Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the architect selected to design 2 World Trade Center, has engaged in copying the future. Mary Campbell Gallagher, the redoubtable defender of Paris against skyscrapers via SOS Paris, observes that Ingels’s 2 … Continue reading
Paris cries out for your help
Michael Mehaffy has sent an SOS to all lovers of Paris. Write, if only one line, to the judges who will rule soon on an appeal of a stop-work order against a developer who is trashing his own building, La … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Development, Other countries, Preservation
Tagged France, La Samaritaine, Michael Mehaffy, Paris, Petition, Rue de Rivoli, SOS Paris
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Good news from Paris!
Bravo! The city council of Paris has voted narrowly to reject the proposal for a skyscraper in the city center. Le Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, lost an 83 to 78 vote. Mayor Hidalgo, a Socialist, immediately … Continue reading
