As urbanists around the world devise new approaches to better everyday living, we highlight three projects in Japan, Sweden and Singapore taking a fresh perspective.
In need of an urban pick-me-up? Boosting quality of life in cities doesn’t always require large-scale intervention. These projects are improving the way their cities look, act and feel.
Like many of you, we are preparing for our summer holidays. But after a short break in Beirut we’ll be back to provide you with plenty of music, chat and reportage to entertain and inform you while you’re stretched out on…
Everything that's new and noteworthy in fashion, including a sportswear line from Japanese brand Tools, and ties with a twist from UK label An English Hand.
The city of Nantes has announced plans to convert a 19th-century prison into an urban village with 160 new homes, a theatre and a nursery, as well as a collection of pocket-parks, allotments and terrace gardens. Architec…
Saudi Arabia’s economy is running a $100bn (€92bn) deficit and the country is thrashing out options for getting its House back in order, including the selling of shares in the state’s oil company. But an untouched atoll…
If you’re looking for a place to lay your head in Mallorca, New York or Vienna, we have word on some cracking new openings that we think you’ll love. And if you’re not heading to these destinations soon, keep this prized…
Cities have never been so vibrant, vital and on the move. But what is the formula for a perfect neighbourhood? Here we look at some of our favourite urban projects that are transforming their cities – and offer a model for…
The Austrian modernist architect Andrea Lenardin Madden might have seemed an odd choice as the design force behind the fast-expanding Sprinkles cupcake empire – not least to herself – but, like one of their sweetest prod…
Fiona Wilson reporting from Perth: Having recently transformed from sleepy suburban outpost into a thriving mineral-rich boomtown, this Western Australian city is poised to reinvent itself again, with sustainability and…