The prostitutes of Amsterdam's famous red-light district are the inspiration for a real-life, walk-through artwork on display from Saturday just a few hundred metres from the real thing. "This artwork has made a tour of the world, but this will be its first exhibition in Amsterdam," the curator of the city's Historical Museum, Annemie de Wildt, told AFP ...

French star architect Jean Nouvel said Thursday that plans to build a high-tech skyscraper on the edge of Paris were put on hold after investors hard-hit by the global slowdown grew nervous. Nouvel won the contract to build the modern concrete, glass and steel Signal Tower in 2008 as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate La Defense, the drab ...

French star architect Jean Nouvel has scrapped plans to build a high-tech skyscraper on the edge of Paris after the project failed to attract investors, officials said Thursday. Nouvel won the contract to build the modern concrete, glass and steel Signal Tower in 2008 as part of an ambitious plan to rejuvenate La Defense, the business district on Paris's ...