Paris-based firm Atelier Zundel Cristea won a competition to transform the Battersea power station into a museum. The concept behind the project was to make it a 'fun' place that would attract people of all ages and display architectural information in addition to allowing people to explore, experiment and share ideas. Paris-based firm Atelier Zundel Cristea won a competition to transform the Battersea power station into a museum. The concept behind the project was to make it a 'fun' place that would attract people of all ages and display architectural information in addition to allowing people to explore, experiment and share ideas. (via designboom)

Spanish-based interior designer Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde may spend too much time watching sitcoms but it allowed him to create incredibly detailed floor plans (including furnishing details) of households from The Simpsons, Dexter, Friends, Seinfeld, and many others.  

We are enjoying the work of Matei Apostolescu, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Bucharest, Romania. He uses a wide variety of materials to create his vibrant and detailed images, ranging from pencil to markers, to spray paint to Photoshop.

Chinese artist Yang Yongliang studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy before starting his career as an artist with the goal of "creating new forms of contemporary art." Yang has since created several series of incredible landscapes using photography and digital manipulation, commenting on the pace of urbanization in modern China.  

Japanese artist Mihoko Ogaki has combined the night sky with the body in these sculptures constructed from plastic and embedded with LEDs. The light shines out through thousands of tiny holes and illuminates the walls surrounding the sculpture but when they are placed in bright room, the bodies appear to be suffering and dying.  

One of our favorites curators of the moment, Jesper Elg of V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, just opened a curated show at The Hole in NYC called Chicken or Beef?. The show itself is loaded with great talent from both America and Europe, curated as a "Transatlantic survey of figurative painting in Europe and America, named after the ubiquitous question posed on transatlantic flights."

We are enjoying the paintings Iranian-American artist Tala Madani. Her portraits of Middle Eastern men are provocative and humorous commentaries on cultural and sexual identity. The scenes in her work "play out fictive rituals of a deviant, distinctly female imagination: prayer gatherings twisted into homosexual orgies, birthday parties targeted for terrorist attack, and tattoos and body hair plucking construed as the latest in ultra-macho beauty makeovers."

Last week, we at Juxtapoz launched a redesigned website, with new features, looks, and departments that we are really proud to have for our readers. Yesterday, we showed you the brand-new Juxtapoz Gallery page, and today, we showcase our brand new Events page. Each day, week, and month, you can go to the Juxtapoz Events page to see which shows are opening, closing, running, and even on the distant horizon.

On March 16th, 2013, Mike Shine (cover artist of the March 2013 issue) will open Flotsam's Harvest at White Walls in San Francisco. As we get closer to the opening this weekend, we have been showing you the hints and riddles that Shine has been dropping from Dr Flotsam, the mysterious character that has given Shine the gift of knowing and presenting the riddle of the Harvest. Today, we look at Act 5.

San Diego-based artist and designer Ariel Wilson worked with Oak Grove Center for Education in Murrieta, CA to create a less institutional environment that would foster creative growth providing a space for both team-building skills as well as individual personal development through activities ranging from sports to art making.