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Architectural photographs of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France. The main building, designed by Jean Nouvel and inaugurated in 1987, features a façade of diaphragms – similar to those in photo lenses – that respond to the sun by contracting and expanding depending on light levels; across the parkette, a (con)temporary building commissioned by fashion brand Chanel and designed by Zaha Hadid is all topography and curves, futuristic in its inherently incomprehensible yet harmonious […]