The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service released its dataset for August 2024 today, which found that: August 2024 was the joint-warmest August globally in the ERA5 dataset, tied with August 2023, with an average surface air temperature of 16.82°C. Last month was 0.71°C above the 1991-2020 average for August. This concludes the warmest global… Continue reading
A series of snaps from opera visits – when I remember to snap some. Above and immediately below, just before the start of ‘La Dame Blanche‘ on January 25, 2022. The present building dates back to 1885, rebuilt on the site where the previous opera was destroyed in a gas fire. It’s a beautiful space… Continue reading
La Tête Carrée, or the blockhead building, which houses the administrative offices of the Louis Nucéra library in Nice. At 30 meters high and 14 metres wide, the building has seven stories, three in the neck and four in the head. It was inaugurated in 2002 and is considered one of the most unusual and intriguing contemporary structures on the Côte d’Azur.
In the background: MAMAC, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Nice, 08 December 2021.