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Conceived as a shell-like structure floating above the ground, this house redefines coexistence with the wild. Being in sync with nature, its architect argues, is not about yielding to it but about enduring alongside it.
CEO Yves Carcelle prizes the emotion a single artwork can bring. At L'Espace Culturel, Olafur Eliasson's lift plunges visitors into forty-five seconds of darkness, cleansing them of the city before art begins.
Ride the escalator to the atrium of New York's Conrad and you might mistake it for a museum. This unusual five-star has no spa, but art fills every corner and room, complete with guided tours.
David Lake and Ted Flato took lessons learnt in Morocco and applied them across the United States. We tour Arizona's Brown Residence, a desert house of panoramic views from which our region might learn.
From the unmissable genius of Gaudí to the legendary tapas of 1929-vintage El Xampanyet, our two-day itinerary distils the Catalan capital's architecture, flavours and unhurried pleasures into one gloriously well-spent weekend.
Vast and inhospitable, the Namib in south-western Africa is a land of ghosts. Along the notorious Skeleton Coast lie the wrecks of ships and their crews; venture inland for famed ghost towns and elusive ghost horses.
From the seventeenth-century Clock Tower guarding the main gate to the bustling Trg Od Oružja square and the seafaring treasures of the Maritime Museum, we chart the essential sights of this storied Adriatic city.
With a guest list of four hundred guarded like a secret, the party summoned Russian oligarchs, mining magnates, European aristocrats and countless models. Beneath Montenegro's mountains, we witness a glittering who's who of global wealth.
As spring nears, our writer dreams of the Maldives, of azure ocean and white sand, of being nowhere at all. Yet such a paradise lies far closer, on a natural island just 500 metres off the coast.
When a friend rang proposing the trip of a lifetime to Siberia, Anissa Helou could scarcely place Kamchatka on the map. Once a place of exile, its temperatures plunge below minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Part ideas factory, part experiment, the Dada Meeting Point feels like an atelier in hyperdrive. Displays last exactly forty-five days, says founder Jamil Dada, the space endlessly re-fashioned like a work in progress.
Our essential guide to the Dutch capital begins with its art. From the unmissable Van Gogh Museum to the partly reopened Rijksmuseum and the ever-changing FOAM photography museum, here is where to look first in Amsterdam.