Johan Otto News Today

Swakopmund residents and environmental activists are against a private company that plans to establish a hazardous industrial storage facility for radioactive materials.

It is a Dane who designed Paris' new trademark. In 1983, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen won the competition for the completion of the La Défense district west of Paris. It became an enormous marble-clad cube which Spreckelsen called the "Triumph of Mankind", and which the French today call "The Great Arch". Spreckelsen died in 1987 when the cube was only half built. The program does not include previously published recordings with him. He talks about his project, about joys...

3XN has officially debuted its first-ever French design just west of Paris’ La Défense business district in Nanterre. Featuring a program that combines a traditional office and hotel accommodation through two separate volumes, joined along an east-west axis, that offer views of La Défense’s...

German fresh-cut sector needs to catch up with countries such as the Netherlands, UK and USA

German fresh-cut sector needs to catch up with countries such as the Netherlands, UK and USA

The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most iconic and enduring symbols of the city of Paris, France. But why did Napoleon commission it?