National Library of France Finally Complete After a 10-Year-Long Renovation

Formerly known as the Bibliotheque du Roi, the Richelieu site of the National Library of France near the Palais-Royal has finally completed construction after almost 10 years of renovations.

The transformation of the 300-year-old site included facade restorations, installation of an interior garden, and facilities maintenances, promoting innovation, modernity, and openness to a wider public.

The project, which is both a library and a museum, will continue to house a massive campus for the history of the arts and heritage, and provide visitors with a place for walking, discovery, and exchange. The site is expected to be open to the public in summer of 2022.

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Delicate Paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung Document the Idiosyncrasies of South Korean Corner Stores

Artist Lee Me Kyeoung continues her decades-long project of painting the dwindling number of Korean corner stores, rendering quaint shops in Yangsan, Gyeongju, Gunwi, Sangju, and Cheorwon as part of her ongoing A Small Store series.

The delicate artworks capture the idiosyncrasies and tiny details of each locale, like a plastic washbasket left out front or signage hanging from the eaves, and the vast collection includes shops in both remote and bustling neighborhoods across South Korea.

Encapsulating the unique qualities of the quickly shuttering stores, Me Keyoung’s paintings preserve their cultural legacies in detailed acrylic.

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Casa en Tres Ríos César Béjar

The constant of the patios and the exteriors intensifies when their qualities fall on the texture, the color and the vegetation. Its interiors devoid of color and texture play the role of blank canvases. The atmosphere of the house comes from the colors.

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The Art of Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style.

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Plaza of Kanagawa Institute of Technology junya ishigami + associates

The Versatility of the plaza was in this case considered from an experiential point of view instead of a practical one. Since the campus already had multifunctional spaces, with a lack of relaxation area, the users would benefit from a unique space suggesting a more ambiguous program.

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Ghostly Aerial Photos Frame Isolated and Abandoned Houses Scattered Across North America

In his ongoing series titled Thin Places, Portland-based photographer Brendon Burton documents battered houses that stand alone in barren fields, amidst an encroaching marsh, or at the edge of the mountain.

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MKM Museum Küppersmühle Extension Herzog & de Meuron

The resulting project constitutes a radical new start. The new structure thus completes the existing museum complex in a visually appropriate way and forms a suitable conclusion to the row of buildings along the dock. At first glance, it might seem as though the new building had always been there.

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The Arc de Triomphe is wrapped in fabric, a vision six decades in the making

After three months of construction work at Paris’ famed Arc de Triomphe, the 160-foot-tall war monument has been completely concealed. The landmark, built during Napoleon’s reign, has been outfitted in 270,000 square feet of silver-blue polypropylene fabric bound with red ropes.

Encasing the Arc de Triomphe in cloth was a longstanding vision of the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude – one that finally came into focus this summer. It began with 400 tons of steel beams erected like a metal jacket around the structure, followed by the wrapping, which was conducted by a team of climbers over the course of a few days. Following the project’s completion on Thursday, the arch will remain transformed for just 16 days.

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Munich’s Municipal Law Library

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REVID.C Gustav Willeit

From the artist:

Art belongs to those who know how to observe. And those who can observe can find it everywhere. In nature, in cities, even in mankind. Above all, art can be found in the light. A light that blurs and that results in unexpected combinations of situations according to the rules that are dictated by chance. And here, in this series Revid.C , the “object city” and the “object architecture” find a bright suspension, a still time that becomes something else: an unlimited space to break the uniformity of modern societies.

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Red Lights - Vatican Aishy

Discover The Basilica di San Pietro, in the heart of the Vatican, under a new glance, a new light. Tinged with red and blue, it changes its appearance and offers a new vision.

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VERO Ecological Tile Exhibition Hall & Headquarters Foshan Topway Design

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THE LITTLE BUILDING CO

The Little Building Co design, develop and manufacture architectural model kits that have a truth to the materials. They are made to feel like they could have come from the architect’s own studio. They research and study the buildings architectural drawings, dissect countless photos and cross reference details to capture the true essence of the buildings in their models.

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Stephen Doyle’s Poetic Book Sculptures

Stephen Doyle describes his interconnected book sculptures as “miniature monuments, testaments to the power of language and metaphors of imagination.” Featuring angled scaffolding and interlocking constructions that appear to grow directly from the bound pages, the sprawling sculptural forms that comprise his Hypertexts series are unruly and enchanting reimaginings of how information is communicated.

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Mesmerizing Architecture Drawings Look Like Impossible Geometric Mazes

Cities, both past and present, are creative muses for many artists. However, while most people depict small parts of their favorite capital, American artist Benjamin Sack draws the entire scope of urban centers.

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