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Set 2,000m Above Sea Level at the Edge of a Canyon, Alila Jabal Akhdar is a Hotel That Feel Like It’s on Top of the World
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Set 2,000m Above Sea Level at the Edge of a Canyon, Alila Jabal Akhdar is a Hotel That Feel Like It’s on Top of the World

Alila Jabal Akhdar opened last spring on the Al Hajar mountains range, which is one of Oman’s most magnificent, untouched landscapes. Perched over 2000 metres above sea level, the hotel overlooks a dramatic gorge and is perfectly positioned to explore the region’s rugged landscape, maki…

16 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

Culture Shock: A Sunken Well Anchors the New Beirut Museum of Art

Culture Shock: A Sunken Well Anchors the New Beirut Museum of Art

Beirut's name is thought to derive from be'erot, meaning wells, a nod to the fertility of its water table. Fittingly, a sunken well lies at the heart of the winning design for the Beirut Museum of Art.

15 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

View from the Top: Red-Soled Dreams in the City That Never Sleeps
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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.

4 Dec 2016 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Rocking Space: AGi Architects Conjure Kuwait's Extraordinary and Innovative Rock House

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.

31 Oct 2016 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Gone to Print: Dubai Unveils the World's First 3D-Printed Office

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.

31 Oct 2016 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Art to Heart: Beirut Art Fair and Lebanon's Enduring Artistic Pulse

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.

13 Oct 2016 By Official Bespoke 1 min

Into Africa: Wrestling with the True Meaning of Sustainable Travel
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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.

12 Sep 2016 By Official Bespoke 5 min

The Busy Bee's Knees: A City That Stops for No One

The Busy Bee's Knees: A City That Stops for No One

Anyone who knows Dubai knows it stops for no one, not even a global economic crisis. From its choked arterial roads at rush hour to the official statistics, every measure confirms a relentlessly bustling city.

1 Jul 2016 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Richard Mille’s Arts & Elegance Show Has Brought Back the Concours d’Elegance Back to France

Richard Mille’s Arts & Elegance Show Has Brought Back the Concours d’Elegance Back to France

Richard Mille’s Concours d’Elegance may be a newcomer but it has managed do the unthinkable and attain almost equal status with the legendary events of Villa d’Este and Pebble Beach. There it lay, casually on the table in front of me, a 139,000 USD RM 11-03 between a bottle of Evian and…

30 May 2016 By Official Bespoke 6 min

On The List: Inside The Members-Only Palazzo Ralph Lauren In Milan

On The List: Inside The Members-Only Palazzo Ralph Lauren In Milan

Far from an ordinary boutique, Milan's Palazzo Ralph Lauren is conceived as an ultra-exclusive luxury club, offering its members the full brand experience within the intimate setting of a private residence.

17 May 2016 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Lead to Believe: Revisiting Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe

Lead to Believe: Revisiting Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe

Set near Notre-Dame in central Paris, the Institut du Monde Arabe ranks among Mitterrand's celebrated Grands Projets. A museum, library and more, this urban scheme remains a work of striking architectural character.

1 May 2016 By Official Bespoke 5 min

Lens on the World: Honouring Leila Alaoui at Dubai's Photo Exhibition
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Lens on the World: Honouring Leila Alaoui at Dubai's Photo Exhibition

Susan Sontag's line that everything exists to end in a photograph came to mind at the first Dubai Photo Exhibition, where the Moroccan showcase paid moving tribute to the late photographer Leila Alaoui.

20 Apr 2016 By Official Bespoke 5 min