Designed for a Paris-based family with two children, the Cubist House is located in a courtyard that encloses an urban oasis, totally disconnected from the busy, greenless street outside.
The sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work.
With grand buildings, subtropical climate and scenic location amid the forested hillsides of Georgia’s Black Sea coast, the resort city of Gagra was once known as the “Russian Riviera.”
Sidney Poitier officially opened the 59th Cannes Film Festival as the cast of "The Da Vinci Code" led a galaxy of stars bringing glitz and glamour to the French Riviera.
One eof the plane's black box recorders has been found at the crash site, about 100 km (65 miles) north of the Riviera city of Nice, and will be examined immediately, France's interior minister said.