This recently completed project, headed by the Austrian architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au (that’s how they spell it and I don’t get it either!) is an anthropology and science museum situated at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone rivers in Lyon, France.  What a great site to win an architectural competition.  It is an interesting building to say the least:

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Building technology has certainly evolved over the last couple of decades but it seems that architectural design has exploded only perhaps in the last five or so years; Continue Reading

Dear readers, you must know, as my close friends and kin know; know only so well, that your host suffers from the occasional bout of melancholy.  Sometimes just a gentle, easy, sadness.  You know that kind of sadness.  Like that time a good friend, a long-time friend,  had moved to Cleveland a couple of  years ago and hadn’t returned your call you made to him yesterday. Continue Reading