AS ABOVE SO BELOW

What if the solution was not to destroy the existing city, but to build around, above and below it? With this radical reasoning, certain architects design Utopic plans to renovate Paris and Tokyo’s urban landscape and city lifestyles: a floor above the city’s zinc roofs, a city below the Seine or Edo River, or even an underground highway network.

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“FIRE THE SHOE CLERK!”

Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy merged in 1987, to create the world’s largest conglomerate specializing in luxury goods. In the years that followed, brands like Givenchy (1988), Céline (1996), and Marc Jacobs (1997) were acquired, indicating a big change in the global fashion industry.

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LA FONDATION
(THE FOUNDATION)

Titans of industry have long made contributions to charitable causes. Modern philanthropy is a Gilded Age invention, meant to battle the increasing socio-economic inequality following industrialization. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie was the first to give away most of hist vast fortune to endow – among others – universities, concert venues, and almost three thousand libraries.

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LIGHT CULTURE

The Japanese Color Woodblock Print, Spring Night at Ginza by Kasamatsu Shirō, originally made in 1934[1], portays a nostalgic glimpse of the Ginza of budding willows and soft lights before it became a carnival of flashing neon. By this illustration, many interesting facts are shown, about the atmosphere and light in the Ginza area.

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