Essays & Art
It is early morning in Paris. She opens her bathroom window and climbs on the roof of her apartment. A deep breath, a quick look over the neighbourhood of Montparnasse. She stretches, moves her head in a wide circle and starts exercising in the fresh air. After half an hour, she returns to her one-bedroom flat under the roof. The tiny apartment is quirky.
Continue reading “Who is Charlotte Perriand?”
Did you see what Brad Pitt did with his perfect home-slash-villa in the Southern part of France at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat? Yes, exactly that spot where the pink coloured serene and arty Villa “Ephrussi de Rothschild” and its lush gardens are located. Extraordinarily beautiful!
What an amazing home, isn’t it?
Continue reading “What makes you feel at home?”
What a strange question to begin with: Is my home performing?
I think a serious question everyone needs to ask themselves, underpinned by Covid-19. Over half of the world’s population are living in urban settings and we have learnt by now how to spend most of our time at home. To not only live at home. To work from home. To pursue our interests at home. To arrange our social life from or in our home.
So the ultimate question in our high-performance-measurement-world is: How’s your home doing on a scale from 1-10?
Continue reading “Modern Living or How is my home performing?”
Anyone remembering the high flying idea of the Garden Bridge over the Thames? For all non-Londoners: It was a private proposal for a pedestrian bridge over the Thames in London, the attraction was mainly designed as an uber-green play space across the river between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges. Awesome!
Continue reading “Bye bye Garden Bridge, hello Camden Highline!”
Seedy, down market, syringe infested. Those were the words used to describe Kings Cross only 15 years ago. This once abandoned no-go zone is long gone. Kings Cross of today -or to use its new branding acronym “KX”- is a different urban space …
Continue reading “KX. All change. Yes, this is London.”