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JR at the Louvre

JR has chosen the biggest gallery in the world to showcase his art: public spaces. For some ten years now, the artist’s monumental photographic collages have been popping up on the walls of cities in all four corners of the globe. “The most important thing,” he explains, “is where I put my photos and the meaning they take on depending on the place”.Whether it be the Middle East, the favelas of Rio, slums of Kenya, New York, Le Havre or Shanghai,

JR’s works leave no one indifferent, because they return our gaze and cut to the very heart of our innermost selves. His spectacular mode of intervention poses questions about artistic creation, the role of images in the age of globalization, and their widespread use, from intimate circles to mass distribution. Invited by the “biggest museum in the world”—which also generates the most selfies—JR has set his sights on one of the Louvre’s symbols, the Pyramid, which he intends to transform with a surprising anamorphic image.

Sunset Ring of Fire

Photographer Dan McGlaun shot these incredible images of a Annular Eclipse, viewed from Big Spring State Park in western Texas. An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon covers the Sun’s center, leaving the Sun’s visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” or annulus around the Moon. In an annular eclipse of the Sun, the Moon casts its antumbra - the outer part of the Moon’s umbra - on the Earth. Like total solar eclipses, annular solar eclipses can be seen as partial eclipses from locations inside its penumbra, but outside it’s antumbra.

Precious Insects

Beacons of Information

The library as a closed fortress of knowledge is a thing of the past. New libraries are open beacons of information that promote interaction between the users, integrate new technologies to access information and include confortable reading areas for everyone to enjoy. Most of the library visualizations included in this photo set belong to competitions entries that were not the selected entry, except the last two images of Snøhetta’s Calgary New Central Library, but they all alude to this new library ideal. 

Helsinki Central Library AAKAA & MARS Architectes (images 01 +02)

Between Books and Trees South Korea JAJA (images 03 +04) 

National Library of Israel ODA (images 05 +06) 

Kazakhstan National Library BIG (images 07 +08) 

Remembering Zaha Hadid in Venice

In celebration of Zaha Hadid’s career in architecture and design, Fondazione Berengo has opened a retrospective exhibition of her work at the 16th century Palazzo Franchetti on Venice’s Grand Canal. Coinciding with the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale, the exhibition showcases many of Hadid’s seminal paintings, drawings and models, conveying her architectural projects in a variety of media, including photography and film. through the designs — built, under-construction, in development and unrealized — the display presents the pioneering research and investigation that instigates and defines the late architect’s work. the exhibition remains open until November 27, 2016.

Contemporary Bauhaus on the Carmel 

A private residence designed by Pitsou Kedem Architects built in the center of a historic avenue and at the very heart of Haifa’s French Carmel neighborhood.

From the architect:

The avenue is studded with a number of residences designed in the Bauhaus style. The Bauhaus style gained its hold in Israel in the wake of international styling trends and is a ornament free design style, both simple and down to earth. The style celebrated the aesthetics of the machine and was characterized by uniformity of color and by unassuming and simple finishes and facades. The style faithfully represented the spirit of the age and the location. This project, designed decades later, creates a line that connects contemporary styling with the spirit of that bygone era.

You can check previous projects by Pitsou Kedem Architects featured on archatlas following the links:

Tel Aviv Townhouse

Concrete Cut

The Corten House

The White House

Ramat Hasharon House 13 

Coincidence

A small sampling of the images you will find on Denis Cherim‘s tumblr from his project entitled The Coincidence Project. Improbable realities and unexpected moments that happen everyday are captured by this the British photographer based in London. Fun, unbelievable, humorous!