PHOTO of the day 2016

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December 30, 2016 | Carrie FISHER watching Debbie REYNOLDS | Las Vegas 1963

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December 29, 2016 | sirpatstew | Beefeater! 🏰🇬🇧Catch @NoMansLandPlay LIVE this Thursday.

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December 28, 2016 | Architizer | Evoking Icons: Mar Adentro Echoes the Brilliance of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute

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December 27, 2016 | Guardian UK | Prince GEORGE’s Christmas treat

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December 26, 2016 | Architizer |  This Is How You Save a Louis Kahn Masterpiece

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December 25, 2016 |  White House Christmas Card | petesouzaThis family. What can I say. What an honor to have photographed them for eight years. A couple of months ago, the Social Office came to me and said they were thinking of using a family photo for this year's White House holiday card. So I thought of Justin Trudeau. I know you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. Earlier this year we hosted the Canadian Prime Minister for a formal State Dinner. Malia and Sasha attended as guests. Before the dinner, I did a family photo in the White House residence. But later, when the Trudeaus arrived, the two families spent some time on the Truman Balcony with their respective delegations. At one point, the Prime Minister asked if we could do a photo of he and his wife with the Obama family. Click, click, click. Then, he said I should do a photo of just the Obama's. I could have said, "sir we already did one before you arrived." But instead, I clicked off a few quick frames. And lo and behold, it was this picture that Justin Trudeau asked me to take which everyone loved as the choice for the 2016 White House holiday card.

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December 24, 2016 | museeorsay | Dans la nef du musée d'Orsay : "Jeune Gaulois" (1875) de Jean-Baptiste Baujault

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December 23, 2016 | museelouvre | C'est la semaine de #Noël ! Visitez le Louvre ce soir en #nocturne jusqu'à 21h45 / This is the #ChristmasWeek! Visit the Louvre tonight until 9.45pm. Léonard de Vinci, La Vierge à l'Enfant avec sainte Anne, Vers 1503 - 1519 / Leonardo Da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, 1503-1519

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December 22, 2016 | Guardian UK |  Kunstmuseum Basel | Standing at a crossroads in the centre of Basel like a big chunk of rock freshly hewn from the Alps, the new Kunstmuseum has a suitably geological weight for a building that houses the oldest municipal collection of art in the world. The sharply chiselled edifice uses three shades of brick to give a stratified, sedimentary quality, while the galleries are designed as a suite of intimate rooms. It is a refreshing departure from the prevailing fashion for big, open-plan halls.

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December 21, 2016 | Guardian UK | Holmes Road Studios | An imaginative reinvention of the almshouse for the 21st century, Holmes Road, Kentish Town, provides a stepping stone for homeless people to gain the skills and confidence to move on to independent living, with 59 micro-flats, counselling spaces and training facilities arranged around a planted courtyard garden. The units have a clever compact plan, conceived as double-height barrel-vaulted studios, with a mezzanine for the bed above an en suite bathroom, while circular windows and rooftop skylights bring light flooding in.

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December 20, 2016 | Guardian UK | Elbphilharmonie Hamburg |  Seven years late and 10 times over budget, Herzog & de Meuron’s €789m glass mountain finally opened this year – and it was well worth the wait. From the curving, sequin-lined escalator at the entrance, to the bulging glass facades, to the scaly, coral-like lining of the auditorium, it is a project that revels in its strange material experiments and the theatrical experience of moving through its carved-out spaces, which exude unparalleled intricacy and complexity. You can stay there, too.

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December 19, 2016 | Guardian UK | Tate Modern Switch House, London | Jutting up behind Giles Gilbert Scott’s stately temple of electricity like an aggressive brick Dalek, the Tate Modern Switch House is one of the strangest buildings to appear in 2016. And its power comes from its refusal to do anything that you might expect.

In an age when public buildings are supposed to be transparent and welcoming, it is opaque and brusque, a forbidding monolith that speaks more of a watchtower than a gallery of modern art. It meets the street not with arms wide open and a friendly smile, but with a fortified bastion wall of brown concrete, like a rammed-earth rampart. The entrance isn’t grand and ceremonial, but takes the form of a low slot around the back, through which visitors shuffle like mice. The structure and materials are just as counterintuitive: the brick walls don’t carry their load, they hang like chainmail, forming a kind of masonry veil draped over the chunky concrete skeleton within, only pierced by arrow-slit windows.

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December 18, 2016 | terrysphots | Can we haz sex with him? #IAmGirl #No #NoWay #AbsolutelyNot #🌟Gay

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December 17, 2016 |  tmagazineStop | 9 on our “Elemental Living” weekend takeover: The city of Austin, Texas, and the Edgeland House constructed by @Bercy_Chen_Studio in 2012. It’s a contemporary take on one of the oldest North American dwellings: the Native American pit house. The home is partially sunk into the ground, and was excavated seven feet into the hillside. With its direct connection to the earth it sits beside, the house creates a balance with the landscape — by simply extending it. Photo by Paul Bardagjy.

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December 16, 2016 |  thegetty | A sleeping faun has found his way into the museum's entrance hall. . This half-human, half-goat mythological figure is a marble copy of a famous ancient sculpture (which you can see at the Glyptothek in Munich). The one in our entrance hall was made by French sculptor Edme Bouchardon. A retrospective of Bouchardon's work opens at the #GettyMuseum on January 10. . The Sleeping Faun, 1726-30, Edme Bouchardon, marble. Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures, Paris.@museelouvre

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December 15, 2016 | eminchilli | Via Della Fontanella Borghese | I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you see an open doorway walk through it. You never know what you may find. #hiddencourtyards #rome

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December 14, 2016 |  britishmuseum | The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods travelled through the night sky by boat. This chest ornament, known as a pectoral, was discovered in the grave of a pharaoh. It shows an ancient Egyptian boat called a barque carrying the sun god, Amun-Ra, sailing under a star-filled sky. During festivals, this divine journey was recreated with a procession of boats carrying statues. Some of the most important finds discovered in the lost ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion were a ritual boat and models of sacred barques.