Tuesday 22 March
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is the exclamation point to decades of rejuvenation and billions of pounds in private and public investment in London’s decaying King’s Cross neighbourhood.
Monday 4 March
Hong Kong's famous skyline will always impress architecturally but look below the towers to find the interesting stuff.
Waking from the nightmare of war, occupation and civil unrest, Iraq has ambitious plans for the renovation and remodelling of its cities and infrastructure. The rebuiliding isn’t purely a physical process – a new mindset…
Saturday 24 April
It’s host panic. The moment you realise that your guests will be here any minute and the place just doesn’t look ready.
Creative industries and individuals from near and far are flocking to the renovated factories and warehouses of Collingwood.
Shared living often means shared cost and lower quality. But in Tokyo, The Share, an innovative scheme offering modest personal spaces linked to sprawling, well-designed communal areas, is attracting a new breed of house…
Richard Rogers talks architecture, we report from São Paulo Fashion Week and take a tour of renovated wind towers in Bahrain.
A sneak peek at the renovated UN Security Council Chamber, we attend London’s Sleep 2012 expo, and inspect the archives of brutalist architect Denys Lasdun.
If you’re an entrepreneur looking for a renovation project then George Town has plenty of dilapidated charm and shop-houses waiting for new owners. Adding to its draw, part of the city has been declared a world heritage…
Sunday 3 April
When it reopened last month after extensive renovations to the tune of £235m, the National Museum of China edged out New York’s Metropolitan to become the largest museum in the world.
With work ranging from cathedral renovations to university buildings, architect Jim Olson has stayed true to his principle that buildings should be a bridge between nature, culture and people. His family lodge is a labour…
In a former jail, now home to the American College of Building Arts, students are learning traditional restoration techniques and preserving their city of Charleston, South Carolina, in the process. David Kaufman visits the…
In central Milan it makes more sense to renovate than trade up. Over four-fifths of the country’s residents live in private homes, and a 100 sq m property in Milan costs on average €380,000. Although one as covetable as…
If you could uproot your business and personal life, where would you go? Have you already started renovating the flat you bought in Genoa (as suggested in issue one) and started looking for office space in Monaco? Does a…
Thursday 24 February
Nuclear armed, highly motivated and a potentially destabilising force in Northeast Asia, the North Korean People’s Army, or KPA, is one of the most feared fighting forces on the planet.
Friday 30 April
Shanghai has gone green in the lead up to the opening of the World Expo today.
Monday 1 October
There is something distinctly pleasing about radiated heat that trumps ambient heat every time.
Friday 17 December
Outside of Vatican City, Niue is the world’s least populous country, a self-governing Pacific nation with a headcount comparable to that of a large high school.
Tuesday 24 August
In New Delhi, the humble public toilet goes by any number of names: wall, footpath, tree, abandoned car, occupied car.
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