I was aiming for a free park up near the bullring, but sometimes I get a little confused with Sat Nav instructions, and a wrong turn at a roundabout meant that I actually drove right into the city centre, up the cobbled road, past all the tourist coaches, and back out again, which w...
My iconoclastic views are catholic (small c) too - my father's family is from India and every time people rave about the Taj Mahal, I think of a scathing nazm about it written by an Urdu poet and film song lyricist in the mid 20th century, reminding me people that it too was a mon...
In 1851, a new law stipulated that all churches shall have enough space to accommodate 30% of the local population. Due to the rapid population growth, many of the last remaining stave churches became too small. New, warmer, and brighter churches were built, and they rapidly became more ...
On his website, Varini writes, “My field of action is architectural space and everything that constitutes such space. These spaces are and remain the original media for my painting. I work “on site” each time in a different space and my work develops itself in relation to the spaces ...
was drawing near, approximately five thousand believers gathered together at the church. The demolition deadline was put off to April 22, when thousands of believers still gathered, and some church leaders were arrested. On April 25, the church committee was told by the authorities that “if yo...