Docomomo France has published an open letter protesting insensitive redevelopment plans to build a 315-foot-high tower bang on top of Eugène Beaudoin and Marcel Lods precocious example of hi-tech Modernism.
Thomas Piper’s filmis a loving, reverential work that tags along with Oudolf for a year, from one fall to the next, capturing a man with a boundless wonder for the world’s flora.
The 110-year-old building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which suffered significant damage in a previous fire four years ago, was in the midst of a $46-million renovation.