The Institut du Monde Arabe stands fiercely in Rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Built in 1987 by Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with Architecture Studio, this precious building was conceived as a place of exchange between the two most representative social realities of the French capital.The synthesis between Middle Eastern and Western…
Near the Scenic Steps, there is a hidden gem, a dandy and grotesque building with a Dantesque mask entrance that leaves you speechless. This sixteenth-century edifice, located between Via Sistina and Via Gregoriana in Rome, is known as “Monsters house” because of its windows and entrance door. However, this residence was the “house of dreams”…
