A reconstruction of a smaller tower, it is a renovation in more than one sense. The soulless financial centre of la defense is getting a facelift, as part of a grand plan for Greater Paris.
As YOU drive past the main checkpoint and on into the centre of Homs, Syria's third-largest city, about 160km (100 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, it is easy to be lulled into a sense of calm.
She never saw the photographs, now kept at the Centre for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, without a sense of shock at how beautiful they were.