St Petersburg to go ahead with skyscraper despite UNESCO fears
|
|
|
Moscow - Officials in St Petersburg have given the go-ahead for a 400-metre skyscraper in the city's historic centre despite reservations by UNESCO's world heritage committee, a news report said Wednesday. Business newspaper Kommersant said the approval meant gas giant Gazprom could go ahead with plans for the 1.3-billion-euro (1.9- billion-dollar) Ochta Tower. Large sections of the population believe the planned structure would ruin the historic centre of the city founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Preservationists say the tower, due to be completed in 2016, would dwarf the city's golden spires and sumptuous palaces once used by Russia's tsars.
Copyright DPA
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related News
Second Munch artwork stolen in Oslo
Oslo - A previously unreported theft of a lithography by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was disclosed Wednesday by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK. Titled Separation II, the lithography was stolen from an Oslo art gallery sometime in June. NRK discov...
Munch artwork stolen in Oslo
Oslo - A lithography by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was stolen late Thursday in a break-in at an art dealer in Oslo, police and media said Friday. It is a unique hand-coloured print, Pascal Nyborg who runs the art dealership told broadcaster NRK....
French culture minister stays out of censorship controversy
Paris - French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand said Thursday he would not arbitrate in the controversy over the demand by a conservative politician that the winner of France's most prestigious literary prize censor herself. Mitterand, who was one...
New preservation project for King Tut tomb in Egypt
Cairo - A new plan was launched Tuesday for the preservation of the tomb of Tutankhamen - one of the most popular tourist attractions in Egypt. The tomb of the pharaoh, popularly known as King Tut, was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howa...
US author Dave Eggers wins prestigious French literary prize
Paris - American author Dave Egger's novel What Is the What has won the 2009 Prix Medicis for best foreign work of fiction, the Medici jury announced Wednesday. A fictional reworking of a true story told to the author by the book's hero, What Is the ...
OBITUARY: Jean Francois Bergier, Swiss WWII historian, dead at 77
Geneva - Jean-Francois Bergier, the Swiss historian who headed the independent commission established in the 1990s to determine Switzerland's role during World War II, died Thursday at the age of 77, RSR radio reported. The independent group of exper...
Putin to recount memories of fall of Berlin Wall in documentary
Moscow - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was working in East Germany in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, is to recount his experiences of that time in a new documentary, reported Russian newspaper Kommersant Wednesday. Putin was based in th...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
