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Barcelona is celebrated for Gaudi and its Gothic Quarter, not skyscrapers. Yet two modern towers stand out: Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar and the soaring Hotel Arts, both symbols of the city's post-Olympic renaissance.
Syrian-Argentine impresario Alan Faena wears many hats across fashion, property and hospitality, though always a white one. Michael Tannenbaum meets the man behind the Faena Art District on the Buenos Aires waterfront.
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.
I learned to people-watch in Paris, arriving from Amman as though dropped into the very epicentre of fascination. The first rule: ignore the locals, whose conversations rarely rise above the morning's metro delays.
In a region where recycling has scarcely taken hold, Averda's Maysarah Sukkar wants to reshape Middle Eastern habits. Matt Nash meets the Sukleen chief in Beirut, where he insists encouragement, not preaching, wins people over.
A Georgetown study finds architecture graduates facing 13.9 per cent unemployment, higher even than the arts, while half the next cohort may be jobless or underemployed. We ask whether a degree still pays.
In three turbulent years steering Lotus, Dany Bahar has weathered extraordinary highs and lows. Nicolas Shammas charts the former Red Bull and Ferrari executive's bold gambles, and asks how secure his marque's future really is.
Having just opened at the end of May 2012, the Bvlgari was readied just in time for London’s Olympic rush. With a two-floor spa, its own cinema, a ballroom, 85 rooms and suites, this shimmering gem isn’t cheap. But then the best things in life never are. I must confess, I don’t like jew…
Pronounced just so, Hyatt echoes the Arabic word for life. Whether coincidence or not, the Chicago chain is pressing ahead with an impressive expansion of its varied properties right across the Gulf region.
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.
People have written about it since writing began, yet for most of history men held the pen. Invoking Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, we explore who truly shaped fiction's intimate lives.
Our guide to summer's most seductive Mediterranean escapes opens in Santorini, the crescent-shaped Aegean idyll spared the loutish crowds of other Greek isles, where boxy white houses and luxurious hotels cling to a volcanic crater wall.