Architecture, Urbanism & Design
SOMEWHAT weird to see the Ministry of Justice on the square known as the center of luxury in Paris, sharing its roofline with a five-star hotel. However, everything here kneels at the emperor on top of the column.
QUELQUE PEU étrange de voir Le ministère de la Justice sur la place connue comme le centre du luxe à Paris, partageant sa ligne de toit avec un hôtel cinq étoiles. Cependant, tout ici s’agenouille à l’empereur au sommet de la colonne.
I OFTEN GO to this little chapel instead of the cathedral next door. Light and simple, not dazzled by majesty, nor frozen by solemnity, I see the space as a receptacle of time; time lasts and engraves history within it.
JE VAIS SOUVENT dans cette petite chapelle au lieu de la cathédrale qui se trouve juste à côté. Léger et simple, non pas ébloui par la majesté, ni figé par la solennité, je vois l’espace comme un réceptacle du temps ; le temps dure et grave l’histoire en lui.
2 minutes of soundscape, with cello and pinao.
Peacefully drawn on the faded parchment, the soaring mountains still have white fur felt on; quietly heaved beneath them, the unsalted seawater strokes the pebble. – Where to jump? – The hesitant steps on the board do not leave the footprints.
Everyone has decorated memory about his or her first computer like her or his first car. Mine was the Power Macintosh 6100/66AV from Apple Computer in 1995. The flat beige box was quite expensive compared to the common x86 towers of that era, but I have been happy with that for 7 years without any extra cost while my friends’ other Wintel machines were rapidly hacked, thrown and replaced.
Initially installed the System 7, it has turned lovely. Using Chicago typeface as a default operating system font, every text on the bespoke Trinitron display appeared clearly legible. In 1997, two years later from its arrival on my desk, Apple released the whole new version of the renamed operating system, the Mac OS 8. Then, besides its technical improvement for the last processors from the PowerPC alliance and its Platinum look, Apple replaced good old Chicago with newly designed Charcoal typeface at that moment.
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