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the 2016 ‘just for men’ national beard and moustache championships took place in nashville, tennessee, where beardsmen and facial hair enthusiasts from across the united states competed for prestigious national and category awards

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

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by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

ph fausto giaccone, elaborazione manfredi bellati

voyages

pale di san martino di castrozza, trentino. ph a.gruzza

http://www.sanmartino.com/

architecture

martin luther church, hainburg, austria. project by coop himmelb(l)au: the protestant church consists of four main building elements: a sanctuary, a community hall, a sacristy, and a sculptural bell tower

http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/

sitting empty in a remote region, this four-story concrete structure is so large it can be seen by airplanes at 30,000 feet. thing is, it never even opened for business. intended to one day serve as a hotel, igloo city in cantwell, alaska, was never completed. These days the abandoned giant concrete igloo has become an attraction nonetheless. ph malcolm manners

http://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/alaska

the london-based design studio of giles miller, focuses on innovative surfaces, material and sculptural works, and their latest design is named ‘perspectives’, their first permanent sculptural architecture installation that’s an organic pavilion covered with cedar shingles

http://gilesmiller.com/

interiors

https://www.lisacorti.com/it/

installations

ai wewei: one of the most important works on view is ‘reframe’, an installation of 22 rubber boats presented on the façade of palazzo strozzi. the large orange life rafts are anchored to the renaissance palace’s windows, aiming to draw attention to the fate of refugees who risk their lives daily to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean

http://aiweiwei.com/

artist taryn simon in collaboration with oma/shohei shigematsu has designed an occupation of loss, a major new performance work choreographed around an oma-designed monumental sculptural setting consisting of 11 concrete wells. located at park avenue armory’s wade thompson drill hall, and co-commissioned by the armory and artangel, london, the performance piece focuses on “the anatomy of grief and the intricate systems that we devise to contend with the irrationality of the universe”

http://oma.eu/, http://tarynsimon.com/

'tower' is a temporary installation within the staircase block of the 18thc listed stables ofk kirkleatham hall near redcar. project by steve messam

http://www.stevemessam.co.uk/

hotels et restaurants

sitting on the edge of a forest overlooking the town of merano sits the miramonti boutique hotel. the recent renovation to the hotel, completed by heike pohl and andreas zanier of arch-tara, saw the addition of new rooms, the relaxation space, and a new restaurant

http://www.hotel-miramonti.com/home.html

http://www.arch-tara.it/

san giorgio palace hotel, ragusa ibla, sicilia. project studio daahaus, cabine doccia duka

http://www.sangiorgiopalacehotel.it/, http://www.duka.it/

http://daaahaus.com/en_GB/

designed by manca studio, 300 square meters of cave-dwellings were developed and restored to create a common area, a spa, and 4 suites for the la dimora di metello hotel

http://www.mancastudio.it/, http://www.ladimoradimetello.com/

il sereno, lago di como

http://www.ilsereno.com/

design

in his newest exhibition, ‘manantial’, designer martín azúa continues his practice of exploring the relationship between ceramics and nature

http://www.martinazua.com/

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alessandra baldereschi per bosa

http://www.alessandrabaldereschi.com/it.html

http://www.bosatrade.com/it/

tappeto pesce by yoyo designs

http://www.yoyo-designs.com/

urban design

bulgarian artist christo guelov has been turning the crosswalks in madrid, spain, into fun and colorful art pieces

http://christo-guelov.net/

livres

giovanni perotti, cultural amorgos, fereniki edition greece

http://www.mimondo.world/giovanni-perotti/

lumières

pola by david trubridge

https://www.davidtrubridge.com/

art

okuda san miguel church justkids, arkansas

http://laiglesiaskate.com/?lang=en

photos

kel marubi with his wife in the studio, no date,
silver gelatine dry process on glass
marubi national museum of photography, shkodër, albania

http://www.albanianews.it/turismo/viaggi/705-pietro-marubi-e-larte-della-fotografia-in-albania

in the middle of the night, italian photographer lorenzo montezemolo climbed mt. tamalpais in marin county, california and waited for what he knew would be the perfect conditions for a spectacular long-exposure photograph. as the fog slowly rolled by he opened his shutter for three minutes, long enough for the full moon above to illuminate the surreal landscape

http://www.elmofoto.com/

morten andersen, untitled cities at photohof, salzburg, austria

http://www.fotohof.at/

exhibitions

ruth harriet louise, greta garbo, the temptress, 1926

garbo’s garbo portraits from her collection

staley wise gallery new york

http://www.staleywise.com

chiharu shiota presents ‘uncertain journey’, a monumental, site-specific exhibition at berlin’s blain|southern until november 12, 2016.

http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/en/

http://www.fondazionmaxxi.it

et caetera

"a ilha dos amores”, created by joana vasconselos after her success in venice, consists of  life-size cement sculptures, which the artists opulently painted with acrylic and covered with cotton crochet in a "haute couture” manner 

http://joanavasconcelos.com/index.aspx