Once there was life without books. It’s hard to imagine what that must have been like: an age of stories and knowledge of the world which stretched no farther than a day’s walk. The introduction of the written source constituted nothing less than the creation of a time and space capsule.
Archive | April, 2008 
Signal Tower, Paris / France by OMA
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Post-war Paris is torn between its need, as the nation’s capital, to represent its modernity versus its preservation instinct.
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