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Arthur C. Clarke imagined a black monolith driving human progress. On architect Galal Mahmoud's concept board sits a startling counterpart, rendered entirely in white, an object our writer scarcely recognises but cannot stop contemplating.
They say crossing the Drake Passage is the price of seeing Antarctica. From the Tierra del Fuego port of Ushuaia, a veteran geologist warns that some crossings are calm and others anything but.
Karl Lagerfeld brought Chanel's 2014/15 Cruise collection to a man-made island owned by Dubai's Crown Prince, staging eighty-four looks for a thousand guests ferried in by abra boats.
Drawing into Johore Bahru, our writer realises everyone is staring. Passengers, guards, cleaners and vendors reach for their phones; parents point him out to their children. Only the elderly seem entirely unmoved by the spectacle.
Step inside Caracalla and you enter a world of grand columns, ornate frescoes and velveteen diwans, at once ancient and Oriental. Everyone here moves with a dancer's gait, in hushed, international seriousness.
The brief was simple: the finest Antarctic wildlife experience possible. With mainland camps and regimented cruise ships falling short, Henry Cookson of Henry Cookson Adventures searched for a luxury superyacht robust enough for serious polar cruising.
Looking to buy in Geneva? We were given exclusive access to a once-in-a-lifetime property about to go on sale: Baroness Lambert's beautifully decorated, three-storey, art-filled home, complete with its own enviable roof terrace in the heart of town.
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.
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 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.