View from the Top: Red-Soled Dreams in the City That Never Sleeps
Sinatra's vagabond shoes still long to stray through the heart of New York, only now they are more likely to be red-soled Louboutins, and their owners are buying a place to stay.
Rocking Space: AGi Architects Conjure Kuwait's Extraordinary and Innovative Rock House
Cross Herzog and de Meuron's de Young with Koolhaas's Casa da Musica and you arrive at Rock House in Kuwait. Thanks to AGi Architects, it is among the most innovative residences imaginable.
Gone to Print: Dubai Unveils the World's First 3D-Printed Office
Built layer by layer in just 17 days, the Dubai Future Foundation's new headquarters marks an architectural and engineering breakthrough, and the opening salvo in an ambitious bid to reinvent how cities are made.
Natural Born Thriller: Oman Bets on World-Class Tourism to Reduce Its Oil Reliance
To reduce its dependence on oil, Oman is investing billions in a burgeoning hospitality industry. Eschewing glitter and artifice, the sultanate is betting instead on world-class service set within genuinely spectacular natural surroundings.
Art to Heart: Beirut Art Fair and Lebanon's Enduring Artistic Pulse
Caught between transformation and disintegration, Lebanon still nurtures the Middle East's most developed artistic community, and the Beirut Art Fair is where its galleries, institutions and rising talents converge each year.
Dubai’s Palazzo Versace is Unabashed Opulence and All
Before 2008, it seemed as though a new and exciting project would be launched almost every day in Dubai. After the bubble burst, so many plans got put on the backburner that it was impossible to tell which projects were put on hold and which were abandoned altogether. The Palazzo Versac…
A Room With a View: Inside the Starlight Room Dolomites in the Italian Alps
High in the Italian Alps, a tiny glass-walled cabin set on faux-skis lets guests sleep beneath an unpolluted night sky, betting that experiential value now matters more than square footage.
A Site to Sea: The Floating Seahorse Villas and Their Underwater Bedrooms
The Floating Seahorse villas are a pod of holiday homes with underwater bedrooms and bathrooms, anchored off Dubai within The World. Kate Hazell surveys the emirate's latest bid to capture the imagination.
Into Africa: Wrestling with the True Meaning of Sustainable Travel
By candlelight on a wind-swept beach, researcher Jonathan Belt muses that a helicopter may burn less fuel than a boat. It is hard to say what is truly sustainable, which is precisely why we must talk.
Why We Love the Phoenicia, Beirut's Legendary Hotel Since 1961
A Beirut institution that has hosted kings, queens and film stars, survived the civil war and political turmoil, and lives on as a temple to art, cognac and old-world glamour.
Why Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana is the World’s Number One Restaurant
Massimo Bottura is no ordinary chef. As anyone who has watched him tell scared-looking contestants on MasterChef that he wants “to eat their emotions on a plate” will know, he approaches things differently. Over the course of an exhausting hour with the fast-talking Italian, our convers…
Try a Different Side of Geneva with a Fabulous Hotel in the Heart of the Old Town
Arab tourism to Geneva is ever rising but for the vast majority of our region’s travellers the choice of hotel revolves around the international chains. In honour of the unorthodox, we ventured off this beaten path and into the Old Town to stay at Les Armures. Did you know that Geneva’s…