Stanislas Sorel (born 3 February 1803, – died 18 March 1871) was a French civil engineer, inventor, and chemist. A poorly known aspect of Sorel early works was the development…

César Baldaccini, known as César, was a French sculptor born in 1921 in Marseille and died in 1998 in Paris. He was part of the New Realists movement, which was…

The Shard is a 72-storey skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London. Standing 309.6m high, The Shard is the tallest

Official opening of the Centre Pompidou on 31 January 1977. In the 1970’s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the…

Dan Stubbergaard (born 30 January 1974) is a Danish architect and founder of the architectural firm Cobe. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in…

Robert Forester Mushet (8 April 1811 – 29 January 1891) was a British metallurgist and businessman. Robert spent his formative years studying metallurgy

Making the Every Day monumental. Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas…

Rollin’ on the river. William Donald Scherzer (January 27, 1858 – July 20, 1893) was an American engineer and inventor who invented the rolling lift bridge. In 1893, he suffered…

Opening of the Sendai Médiatheque on 26 January 2001. Sendai Mediatheque is a library in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by Toyo Ito in 1995 and completed in…

Ben van Berkel (Utrecht, 25 January 1957) is a Dutch architect. He studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and graduated cum laude from the Architectural Association in London in…