James Chambers
Food & drink
Best bites from Shanghai to Montréal and a recipe for nduja, chilli & tomato bucatini.
Travel Briefing
Whether you're dreaming of burying your toes in the sand off the east coast of Mexico or exploring an old Portuguese olive farm, this month's new openings will have you itching to book.
Quality of Life Survey: Metropolis now
You want a city that’s well run, delivers on life’s essentials and is fun too? This is our ranking of the top 25 in the world.
Asia Pacific
Vietnam’s battle for the best city transport system, a neighbourhood makeover in Seoul and Shanghai’s riverside gets a spruce-up.
Architecture
We help Sydney improve the quality of after-life, meet the Vietnamese designers looking to the past for new solutions and venture into the dapper new showroom of an Italian design giant.
Lee Byung-hun: Mr Sunshine
When the crowds thin out, South Korea’s most in‑demand leading man likes to enjoy some downtime at his favourite restaurant.
Blue-sky thinker
An aeronautical eureka moment helped Michimasa Fujino relaunch the stalled Honda Aircraft project – and its HA-420 is now the private-aviation industry’s most sought-after jet.
Ask the experts
Auckland’s mayor, a Slovenian urban planner and Taiwan’s cycling maven all have one thing in common: they want to improve the way you get from A to B.
Gearing up
City planners plotting new routes should look to these three cities for hints on how to get people moving.
Architecture
From a Swiss school putting good architecture on its curriculum to a fix for a Warsaw eyesore.
