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Amazing Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

Aluminum House in Madrid

Casa de Aluminio (Aluminum House) by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos sits on a site surrounded by gardens and tall trees within the city of Madrid, Spain. The metallic finish and horizontal proportions help minimize the scale of the house which sits like a jewel in a site bound by nature.

You can also see previous features of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos work following the links:

Casa del Acantilado 

Casa del Atrio

Casa Balint

Casa en la Ladera de un Castillo 

Oslo, Norway.

Okay, I’m sure you know a bit more than that, but unless you’re a Renaissance scholar, you’re certain to find yourself amazed and surprised at how much you didn’t know about the quintessential Renaissance man when you encounter a compilation of his notebooks—Codex Arundel—which has been digitized by the British Library and made available to the public.

Palmyra Joseph Eid

A year after it was taken by ISIS, the Syrian city of Palmyra was recently retaken by Syrian forces backed by Russian airstrikes. Previously home to many of the world’s most treasured historical sites, many artifacts were destroyed by Islamist ISIS forces in an anti iconoclastic purge. Now, Joseph Eid, a photographer for AFP news agency who took photos of the site just two years ago, has posted before-and-after images of the damage.

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“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in German