The week's best photojournalism A.J. Masias, 10, dips his face underwater while wading in a fountain at Waterfront Park, in Charleston, South Carolina. Muslim women attend Ramadan tarawih prayer, at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. A sailing boat passes behind sand sculptures that are part of the Frozen Summer Fun sculpture festival, in Ostend, Belgium. Venezuela's Oil Minister Asdrubal Chavez reacts while talking to the media, during an oil conference in the western city of Maracaibo. Workers walk across one of the venues for a yoga camp, ahead of World Yoga Day on June 21, in Ahmedabad, India. A migrant covers her face while resting near the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing, on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimille, Italy, and Menton, France. Thousands of red tuna crabs litter the shore along Dana Point, California. A racegoer reads a newspaper at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, in England. Emma McGowan, 27, laughs as she tries the Electronic Arts Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing Experience simulator, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, in Los Angeles, California.

Models prepare for the 11th annual toilet paper wedding dress contest, at Kleinfeld's Bridal Boutique, in New York. Sanyu, a five-day old Rothschild's Giraffe calf, runs with another member of its herd, at Chester Zoo, in Chester, England. Members of the world taekwondo federation demonstration team perform in Baku, Azerbaijan. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov) **See last week's best photojournalism** Behind-the-scenes photos reveal the triumphs and the torment of competing in the Westminster Dog Show The beauty lurking at night A London photographer finds the most interesting things happen when the sun goes down and the streets go quiet Westminster, London, United Kingdom Project Team: Alex Bilton, Alex Marcoulides, Barbara Bochnak, Carlos Garijo, Clay Shorthall, Ertu Erbay, George King, Giorgia Cannici, Hannes Schafelner, Hee Seung Lee, Kasia Townend, Nannette Jackowski, Nicolas Gdalewitch, Seth Handley, Thomas Soo, Tom Locke, Torsten Broeder, Tristan Job, Yamac Korfali, Yeena Yoon The architectural concept of the London Aquatic Centre is inspired by the fluid geometries of water in motion

, creating spaces and a surrounding environment that reflect the riverside landscapes of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave - enclosing the pools of the Centre with a unifying gesture of fluidity, while also describing the volume of the swimming and diving pools. The Aquatics Centre is designed with an inherent flexibility to accommodate 17,500 spectators for the London 2012 Games in ‘Olympic’ mode while also providing the optimum spectator capacity of 2000 for use in ‘Legacy’ mode after the Games.tyrone lollipop curtains Northern Plaza & Roof (Legacy Mode) The Aquatics Centre is within the Olympic Park Masterplan. eclipse curtains sangriaPositioned on the south eastern edge of the Olympic Park with direct proximity to Stratford, a new pedestrian access to the Olympic Park via the east-west bridge (called the Stratford City Bridge) passes directly over the Centre as a primary gateway to the Park. made to measure curtains in castleford

Several smaller pedestrian bridges will also connect the site to the Olympic Park over the existing canal. The Aquatic Centre addresses the main public spaces implicit within the Olympic Park and Stratford City planning strategies: the east-west connection of the Stratford City Bridge and the continuation of the Olympic Park along the canal.hearthside tab top curtains Ground Floor Plan (Olympic Mode)jcpenney curtain wand Podium & Roof (Legacy Mode) The Aquatics Centre is planned on an orthogonal axis that is perpendicular to the Stratford City Bridge. decora elgin curtainsAll three pools are aligned on this axis. divine curtains marbella

The training pool is located under the bridge with the competition and diving pools located within the large pool hall enclosed by the roof. The overall strategy is to frame the base of the pool hall as a podium connected to the Stratford City Bridge This podium element contains of a variety of differentiated and cellular programmes within a single architectural volume which is seen to be completely assimilated with the bridge. The podium emerges from the bridge to cascade around the pool hall to the lower level of the canal. The pool hall is expressed above the podium by a large roof which arches along the same axis as the pools. Its form is generated by the sightlines of the 17,500 spectators in its Olympic mode. Double-curvature geometry has been used to generate a parabolic arch structure that creates the unique characteristics of the roof. The roof undulates to differentiate between the volumes of competition pool and the diving pool. Projecting beyond the pool hall envelope, the roof extends to the external areas and to the main entrance on the bridge that will be the primary access in Legacy mode.

Structurally, the roof is grounded at 3 primary positions with the opening between the roof and podium used for the additional spectator seating in Olympic mode, then in-filled with a glass façade in Legacy mode. ChapterSecurity in Shared Neighbourhoods Part of the series New Security Challenges pp 190-210Azerbaijan’s Rites of Passage: Liminality, Centering and the Temptation of Strategic Autonomy At the center of the Caspian Sea energy complex is a land of the periphery. A place on the margins, a place between places: Azerbaijan’s identity has forever been a contested proposition. It is a ‘liminal realm’, a place of the threshold, existentially ‘neither here nor there’. 1 By assuming an identity defined in terms of energy, Azerbaijan has ‘centered’ its development on ‘Euro-Atlantic’ geopolitical preferences. But in neither a domestic order that is aggressively secular at a time of global Islamist mobilisation, nor a foreign policy that ostentatiously associates a Muslim polity with the state of Israel, nor a strategic decision to associate a country of the southern Caucasus with the Euro-Atlantic community, can this centering be considered a natural development.