City views

Cities are a source of inspiration, find my publications on this theme here. Don’t expect to find the most popular places, I will try to take you elsewhere.

My posts on Berlin are on a dedicated page.

My posts as I published them:

Bauhaus: ADGB school in Bernau, a UNESCO site

A look back at one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites near Berlin: the ADGB trade union school. The UNESCO-listed Bauhaus architecture in Germany is grouped…

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25th June 2022

Hans Scharoun – Schminke House

A post dedicated to a unique building, a 1930’s villa, whose design has left a deep impression on me. Hans Scharoun is a German architect whose…

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11th June 202211th June 2022

Rotterdam, sky scrappers, pop architecture and industrial culture

Too often neglected by tourists in favour of Amsterdam of course but also other destinations such as The Hague, Utrecht … Rotterdam is worth a stop…

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29th May 202229th May 2022

Discovering the small streets of Athens (2/2)

Today I invite you to accompany me on a stroll through some of Athens’ neighbourhoods. A visit in two posts, of which this is the second.…

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14th May 20227th May 2022

Discovering the lanes of Athens (1/2)

Today I invite you to accompany me on a stroll through some of Athens’ neighbourhoods. A visit in two posts, of which this is the first.…

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7th May 20227th May 2022

A visit to Cottbus

Following my post on Lusitania, here is Cottbus, the historic German capital of this mining region. We’re there very close to the actual Polish border, about…

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30th April 2022

Typical of the DDR: Eisenhüttenstad

More than thirty years after the reunification, a large part of the architectural heritage of the GDR has disappeared, has been destroyed or completely rebuilt ……

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20th February 202220th February 2022