Jose Dallo

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[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

🎉 Today, @ISBAHQ marks its 30th anniversary with a special event during the Assembly meetings!🌍 Join live at 10AM (Jamaica): https://t.co/ZWK8mJzAXX

📑 On Tuesday, MSG Leticia Carvalho shared with the Assembly her annual report: https://t.co/4wpkpvMk2P

#ISA30 #DeepSea

[Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea @undoalos]

The call for applications for the 2024 United Nations-Nippon Foundation Fellowship is open.
Deadline: 8 September 2023
More information here: https://t.co/ynfN9XGY76

[Jose Dallo @jdallo]

Rich, poor countries split over costs of pandemic prevention https://t.co/FaVLHJgRAl

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What is the world's most underrated building?

One answer might be the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Why? It's quite possibly the only place on earth where Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture were all somehow combined into a single, spectacular building.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes was commissioned in 1900, with the intention of completing it by 1910 to mark the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence.

An Italian architect called Adamo Boari, who worked in a mixture of Neoclassical and Art Nouveau styles, was appointed to design it. But construction was delayed and then came the Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910 to 1920.

The Palacio was left unfinished for two decades until construction restarted in 1932, this time according to Art Deco design principles under the leadership of the Mexican architect Federico Mariscal.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes was finally completed and inaugurated in 1934, and has hosted art exhibitions and theatrical productions, including ballet and opera, ever since. It is also home to two museums dedicated to Mexican architecture and art, along with the Ballet Folklórico de México and the National Symphony Orchestra.

From outside we are treated to a building thoroughly Neoclassical in shape and design, with particular influence from the Beaux-Arts style of 19th century France — this explains the almost Baroque flair and extravagance of the exterior.

But some of the sculptural details and the huge, colourful glass domes are more Art Nouveau, and they hint at the interior of the Palacio — a concert hall like no other, built from wood, marble, and stained glass, and decorated with mosaics and paintings.

Not to forget its crowning jewel: a huge, foldable glass "curtain" produced by Tiffany's of New York. This was one of the greatest achievements of the whole Art Nouveau movement: a sensuous, shimmering wall of light and colour.

And that's not all. The main lobby, despite what the Palacio's façade suggests, is a cathedralesque chasm filled with the sharp geometry, futuristic atmosphere, and industrial decadence of Art Deco.

Amid all this the Palacio de Bellas Artes is also decorated with colossal, visually arresting murals by several of Mexico's greatest painters — Diego Rivera, Jorge González Camarena, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros — along with sculptures of Aztec and Maya gods.

Other artists from around the world were also commissioned to work on the Palacio, such as the Italian Symbolist sculptor Leonardo Bistolfi and the Hungarian craftsman Géza Maróti.

And so the Palacio de Bellas Artes is a kaleidoscope of architecture and design. Its complicated history has produced a wholly unique fusion of different and ostensibly conflicting styles. But, somehow, Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco were all integrated into one glorious cornucopia of material, form, colour, and light.

Just like the great churches of the Italian Renaissance, which exhibited the very best work of the architects, painters, and sculptors of the day, the Palacio de Bellas Artes feels like a masterpiece of the many different artistic and architectural movements of the early 20th century all at once — subsumed and transformed into something miraculous by the unique characteristics of Mexican art and culture.

[Atypical TE VE @AtypicalTeve]

🚨 Los esperamos este jueves a las 19:00 hrs para la transmisión y análisis del Primer Foro de la Oposición organizado por el @ComiteFAM

➡️ Activen su recordatorio https://t.co/nkG6fGjhzV

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

Such a pleasure & privilege indeed, great progress in our working group.

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

Yesterday in @undoalos dir. @jdallo presented our technology roadmap that puts forward 5 priority innovation areas each lead by Member State champions. He also referred to @ISBAHQ capacity development initiatives that underpin our activities. (2nd picture show skies from fires)

[Galo Carrera @GaloCarreraH]

The Legal and Technical Commission of the @ISBAHQ opened its meetings under the 1st part of the 28th session taking place in Kingston, from 7-15 March 2023

The LTC proceeded with the election of @ErasmoLaraC, Mexico, as Chair and Ms. Sissel Eriksen, Norway, as Vice-Chair

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

The Secretariat of @ISBAHQ is accepting proposals for consultancy services to undertake a study on the internalization of environmental costs of exploitation activities in the Area in the production costs of minerals from the Area. Apply by 20 Jan: https://t.co/t5S0sVEvMy

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

Join @ISBAHQ for the #SSKI side event in Room210A at the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 in #Montreal as ISA Sec-Gen @mwlodge and Ms. Jihyun Lee, #CBD deliver opening remarks.

For the full programme, visit our website: https://t.co/kxRhGlvNPX

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

Meet the Office of Environmental Management & Mineral Resources @ISBAHQ we promote and facilitate science as mandated by UNCLOS. Our director @jdallo treated us to a retreat 🙏🏻. We had great fun & worked hard at our workplan 2023-2024. Exciting times ahead. #workhardplayhard 🧠💃🏽

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

THREE DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

Do you have an advanced degree in the field of marine sciences?@ISBAHQ is accepting proposals for consultancy services to assess the potential contribution of ISA to promoting research on plastic pollution in the Area. Apply now https://t.co/GxG86EWxwT

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

THREE DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

@ISBAHQ is accepting proposals for consultancy services to evaluate the potential contribution of ISA & #DeepData to an ocean health assessment index.

Apply by 26 Nov: https://t.co/GXX2v1cOK4

[Jose Dallo @jdallo]

Workshop on "Enhancing genetic approaches to advance #deepsea #taxonomy" organized by @ISBAHQ, Ministry of Oceans & Fisheries @mofkorea
& the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea #Mabik just kicked off: https://t.co/eVDkKDMOvA contributing to know better our #Ocean

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

We thank you for your participation @ISBAHQ 👏

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

Much looking forward 🙌

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

FINAL DAY TO REGISTER

Register now for the workshop on Enhancing Genetic Approaches to Advance Deep-Sea Taxonomy being organized by @ISBAHQ in collaboration with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea: https://t.co/WgOx8PzQZl

[Noémie Wouters @WoutersNoemie]

@ISBAHQ is hiring a consultant to support our participation in the Regular Process of the Global Reporting & Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment @undoalos. Our director @jdallo & myself look forward to receiving your applications. Check: https://t.co/VnMtmv2Alc 🙌

[International Seabed Authority @ISBAHQ]

Today, @ISBAHQ Sec-Gen @mwlodge, Team lead UN Regular Process Marco Boccia and UN Resident Coordinator @ConilleGarry delivered opening remarks during the #DOALOS workshop on the scoping of the next Assessment(s) of the UN Regular Process. The workshop ends on 14 Sept!