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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.
Cities scarred by war and gang violence must work hard to convince the world they have changed. Like Belfast, Beirut and Belgrade, Medellín was once a place only the reckless or criminal dared to know.
The fourth edition of the region's first art fair returns to Beirut from 19 to 23 September, hosting 40 galleries from more than 15 countries. Director Laure d'Hauteville reflects on fifteen years of building a scene.
At the northernmost tip of Queensland lies the Cape York Peninsula, the 'last frontier': remote, wild and cloaked in tropical rainforest where mountain reefs meet pristine beach. Battered by cyclones and floods, it hardly invites year-round living.
They say time heals, and the Vietnamese port of Da Nang proves it. After decades manipulated by the French, Japanese and Americans, a unified Vietnam is burgeoning, and the central city now stands confidently on its own.
As the plane dropped through the clouds, the Moroccan coast appeared. The deep blue sky and the orange-and-red Atlas Mountains made a majestic contrast to the grey central Europe our writer had left behind hours before.
A decade in the making and backed by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Azerbaijan, the Louvre's 125-million-dollar Islamic arts department brought the world's boldest architects together to honour a civilisation's enduring artistic treasures.
Founded in 1922 as a haven for archaeological discovery, Kabul's National Museum once held more than 100,000 objects spanning millennia. Housed in the Darulaman palace, it bears as many traces of recent conflict as ancient history.
At the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, the relentless sun shapes everything. Since 1976 the Riyadh Development Authority and architects AS&P have nurtured the Qasr al-Hokm district, honouring deep cultural, political and commercial tradition.
The Shell House is luminous, a sculptural sweep of white concrete set against rich green. Frozen mid-unfurl, the elliptical tube tapers, separates and spirals lazily around an elderly fir tree to form an ethereal inner courtyard.
Amid searing heat and suffocating humidity, a city unlike any other emerges from the scrubland, reliant on no neighbour to survive. We explore an audacious experiment in sustainable living at the very edge of possibility.
Perched above Theoule-sur-Mer on the Cote d'Azur, Antti Lovag's Palais Bulles is a stunning reminder of another time. Our visit reveals that the bubble palace remains as much today's tomorrow as it was yesterday's.