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Gue(ho)st House In France

Architects Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus get scary with this sculptural,bogey-inspired arts center in France. Situated behind the severe Synagogue de Delme, the center's design transforms an old house, which previously served as a prison, a school, and most recently a funeral home. The new intervention draws inspiration from the latter, cloaking the structure in a white veil of molded concrete that creates a "living body" which expands into the surrounding areas of the house.
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26 Jan 2014 12:05:00


SUNRISE, FL - OCTOBER 19: Jason Grodensky (L) and Maria Rosario prepare to carry her canoe to a trash pile after it was bent in half by after a tornado hit her home on October 19, 2011 in Sunrise, Florida. The tornado hit last night and caused damage to homes in the area but there were no reports of fatalities. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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17 Nov 2011 15:14:00
54 Hàng Ga (Chicken Street), 1994. (Photo by  William E. Crawford from the book “Hanoi Streets 1985-2015: In the Years of Forgetting”)

Documentary photographer William E. Crawford was one of the first Western photographers to gain access to North Vietnam after the war ended. He has photographed the capital, Hanoi, at regular intervals since 1985, concentrating on the colonial and indigenous architecture, urban details, landscapes and intimate portraits of people in their home settings, street scenes and the city’s surrounding countryside. Here: 54 Hàng Ga (Chicken Street), 1994. (Photo by William E. Crawford from the book “Hanoi Streets 1985-2015: In the Years of Forgetting”)
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27 Jun 2018 00:01:00
Pro-government fighters stand next to a tank destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz March 14, 2016. (Photo by Anees Mahyoub/Reuters)

Pro-government fighters stand next to a tank destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz March 14, 2016. (Photo by Anees Mahyoub/Reuters)
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15 Mar 2016 13:59:00
Baldwin Street - The World's Steepest Street

Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is considered the world's steepest residential street. It is located in the residential suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's city centre.
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19 Jan 2014 15:26:00
Lombard Street: The Crookedest Street In The World

“Lombard Street is an east-west street in San Francisco, California. Lombard Street is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookedest street in the world”. – Wikipedia

Photo: A single car drives down a typically crowded Lombard Street, San Francisco's crooked street, April 29, 2003 in San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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07 Oct 2011 09:58:00
“There's No Better Fantasy Than Life Itself”. New York, 2010. (Photo by Sion Fullana)

“There's No Better Fantasy Than Life Itself”. New York, 2010. (Photo and caption by Sion Fullana)
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02 Oct 2013 11:39:00
The classical ballet company “Ardentia” performs in the street of Mexico City on traffic lights, in an effort to highlight the city's fine arts in public spaces in Mexico, September 8, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

The classical ballet company “Ardentia” performs in the street of Mexico City on traffic lights, in an effort to highlight the city's fine arts in public spaces in Mexico, September 8, 2018. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
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12 Sep 2018 00:03:00