Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" became one of his best hits about a love triangle and a stolen raincoat.

Berlin studio Kéré Architecture has used compacted-earth blocks to create a headquarters for the non-profit Goethe-Institut in Dakar, Senegal. Set next door to the Musée Léopold Sédar Senghore, which ...

The Goethe-Institut's new building in Dakar champions sustainable architecture, made from the earth. Star architect Francis Kere has blended local materials with contemporary design. In Dakar, the ...

Designed as "a platform for exchange, innovation, and sustainable cooperation" by Burkinabé architect Francis Kéré, winner of the 2022 Pritzker Prize, the center combines traditional craftsmanship ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the polymathic poet, statesman, and naturalist, maintained a deep and lifelong engagement with the natural sciences, particularly geology, mineralogy, botany, ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and all-around genius of the Enlightenment. His drama Faust opens with a scene ...

In April, a team of researchers reported a device enabled them to witness an intense green-blue colour that had never been seen by humans before. After the announcement, they were bombarded by ...

The shade follows predecessors Mocha Mousse, Peach Fuzz, Viva Magenta and Very Peri Pantone named Cloud Dancer, a serene white neutral, as its 2026 Color of the Year The shade symbolizes calm, ...

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The biographer of a truly world-historical writer finds his work weighted with a double burden. He must trace how his subject’s private passions and follies gave rise to original art, and he must show ...

THE scope of Prof. Andrade's recent essay on Goethe 1 is so broad that a few points meriting more detailed attention appear to have escaped his pen. It might easily lead to misunderstandings, were one ...

Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering have cracked a major challenge in display technology by inventing the world’s brightest and most energy ...