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Crystal chandeliers and gold etchings make this no ordinary patisserie. The decor nods to the Incroyables and Merveilleuses of late eighteenth-century Paris, flag-bearers of an aristocratic subculture, as much as to its celebrated meringue creations.
Marked by a colourful map of bean origins, Coffee Collective serves nothing heavy, bitter or dark, and certainly no sugar, which the baristas insist destroys the aroma. Here, coffee is crafted rather than merely made.
After almost a decade of breakneck development and ever more hallucinatory projects, our region has fallen quieter of late. Now one boldly twisting new tower reminds us just how much we have missed the spectacle.
Hasselblad has accompanied NASA into orbit since 1962, and Armstrong and Aldrin captured the first lunar images on specially modified models. We trace the camera maker's long, storied association with space exploration and serious collectors.
Celebrated for his sensational large houses, architect Richard Landry insists his practice also designs small, actively seeking commissions of 500 square metres each year. He explains why scale, ultimately, is always relative to the client.
Architect, urban planner and Harvard Aga Khan Programme director Hashim Sarkis has spent his life thinking about cities. Lebanese by origin, he hails from a small country home to five of the world's oldest.
A decade ago Macau had a single casino; now it has dozens, a testament to rising Chinese purchasing power. At its summit sit the Paiza Mansions, palatial suites that cannot be booked, only earned.
He rejects the label combat photographer, for he has no interest in fighting or killing. Instead he documents the effects of war on ordinary people, hoping his images add to a wider conversation.
A whirlwind weekend in Macau takes in Lord Stow's celebrated egg tarts, with their crème brûlée finish, and the dazzling House of Dancing Water, the latest spectacle from Cirque du Soleil's Franco Dragone.
A two-day itinerary through the floating city, from the unrivalled masters at the Galleria dell'Accademia to a hidden canalside lunch at Locanda Montin and the staterooms and criminal courts of the Doge's Palace.
With more national pavilions than ever and several private initiatives besides, the contemporary Arab world has never been better represented at the Venice Biennale. Nadine Khalil picks the works you should look out for.
Built in 1876 for a Crimean War colonel who sold his celebrated arms collection piecemeal to fund it, Six Palace Gate is a classic London property that seldom comes to market. Its builder never moved in.