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Saudi Arabia’s capital city has become a hub for the nation’s most visually pleasing new architectural landmarks. There’s the Kingdom Centre with its majestic skybridge, the King Fahad National Library and its lozenge-shaped textile awnings and stately Al Faisaliah Tower, featurin…
Gregory Gatserelia's interiors defy categorisation, each wildly different yet united by drama and a striking centrepiece. Given their baroque grandeur, his unexpected early training comes as a genuine surprise to the uninitiated.
At the Wadi Rum Night Camp, French firm BubbleTree's clear-domed pods let guests bed down beneath the desert sky of Lawrence of Arabia country without surrendering a single creature comfort.
A time-honoured boutique hotel tucked between the Phoenicia and a new tower, Beirut's Le Vendôme trades flashy design for European chic, hush-hush service and the rare luxury of genuine seclusion.
From the moment you cross the scorching Maldivian runway, enter the sweaty main terminal, wait for your luggage, realise you have one bag missing, queue in line to file your claim and finally emerge at the arrivals gate, the sight of a single friendly smiley face waiting to usher you to…
In Lebanon, a country that has collapsed, been built and then rebuilt multiple times, it is no surprise to find remnants of a glorious past. From the ancient Roman ruins of Baalbeck to the dilapidated, war-ravaged carcass of a former Holiday Inn hotel in Ras Beirut, there is no shortage…
In Granada's Gorafe Desert, summer temperatures soar to fifty degrees. Long before air-conditioning, hardy souls carved their homes into subterranean caves, emerging only at dawn and dusk. These cave dwellers endure to this day.
As part of an ongoing series, the photographer turns his lens on the working offices of Dubai's design firms, finding an abundance of new spaces but few of the historic buildings that define other cities.
La Résidence de la Pinède, a discreet 1936 beachfront hideaway, has slipped into LVMH's hands and reopened with a Wilmotte redesign, a Guerlain spa and an eventual Cheval Blanc rebrand on the horizon.
The Costume Institute's most ambitious show yet spans 25 galleries across two New York sites, tracing how Catholic imagery and symbolism have shaped haute couture from Chanel to McQueen.
As an evening storm rolls in over the savannah and flashes of temperamental lightning compete for attention with the freight train-like roar of heavy rain, I’m safe and dry under a thick canopy of canvas. It’s the rainy season here in Kenya, when sunsets battle towering cumulus clouds f…
What is love? It’s an age-old question that elicits many answers; from the overwhelming feeling of tenderness we have for a newborn to the impractical kind that keeps us up at night. But there’s also the kind of love that drives people, a passion so profound it fuels ambitious ventures …