Design / Architecture
Monocolumn
Monday 20 September
A class of its own
Zaha Hadid’s first permanent building in the UK opened quietly for business last week. Or rather term.
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Culture / Architecture
Taking art to the max
Rome’s Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI museum opened last summer. Now that the critics have left and the public’s taken over, is it working? Or, like a wonky painting on a wall, does it need readjustment?
Midori House, episode 308
We look at Al Jazeera's move into the US market with the purchase of Current TV, find out how copycats in China are replicating a Zaha Hadid building, and discuss how easy it is to change someone's mind.
Affairs / Urbanism
Baku to the future
Baku’s skyline is marking out the Azerbaijani capital as a city for the 21st century, with its five-star hotels and Zaha Hadid-designed arts centre, but there’s still much work to do to combat its 20th-century
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 October
Souking it up
Last week, the Beirut souks, once the heart of this cosmopolitan city, were relaunched with a discreet soft opening, spearheaded by shop owners itching to start business.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Saturday 21 November
The fine art of nation branding
The Swarovski chandeliers in Abu Dhabi’s seven-star Emirates Palace hotel vied for attention this week with equally luminous visitors from the world’s best contemporary art galleries.
Design / Interior design
Box of delights
Daniel Fügenschuh’s simple white house in Tyrolean capital Innsbruck is a chalet for the 21st century and a great foil for the city’s grand architecture. Its modernist proportions and interiors are tempered with warm wooden…
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Thursday 24 December
2010: Optimism is building for architects
As architects down tools for the holidays, it’s a time for reflection.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Thursday 23 December
Forecast 2011: Culture cuts threaten Italy’s artistic heritage
Every December the elite of Italian society, dressed in fur coats and finery, gather in Milan for the season opener at La Scala.
Affairs / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 31 December
Forecast 2011: Far from doom and gloom in London's art world
Stage plays ending their run ahead of time; the death of the UK Film Council; part one of a four-year plan to slash the Arts Council’s budgets by a third: 2011 isn’t set to be the best of years for culture in London.
Business / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Thursday 16 December
Seoul’s property dreamers awaken to reality
Well, they seemed like good ideas at the time.
Design / Entrepreneurialism
Great Sheikhs
Abu Dhabi is built on oil but the supply is not without a bottom. As a result, the city is morphing into a technology, and culture superpower. But who are the visionaries on the ground turning dreams into bricks and mortar…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Monday 26 March
The UAE’s art fairs have identity
Out in the UAE last week – up and down the Sheikh Zayed road from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and back again in heat hazes and sandstorms, the place seemed different to last time I was there – to look at art, at least – three years…
Design / Architecture
Arty party
Everybody who is anybody in the world of architecture goes to the Venice Biennale. So why were there so few good ideas this time?
Design / Urbanism
City revival
In New York, Tobruk, Foshan, Beirut and Stockholm there are pioneering architectural projects that will transform their cities. We take a look at the grand plans.
Affairs / Politics
Asia Briefing
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his highly armoured motorcade, green cities in Japan, and an interview with India's chief economic adviser.
Affairs / Urbanism
Urbanism Forecast
Cairo's new satellite cities, the migration from Mumbai to Bandra, and Asia's frantic competition to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Design / Architecture
Buried treasure
Tadao Ando is one of the most respected architects in the world. Working against Japan’s ‘rip down and rebuild’ architectural policy, he is now burying structures underground, planting trees and wondering if it’s simply…
Affairs / Society
Show the world
Our new series, national icons, is about people who rise above politics to become symbols of a country’s strengths. First we meet May Arida who has kept Lebanon’s Baalbek festival alive despite wars and threats. She also…