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Will Kitchens

Culture

More than Mozart

Who are the contemporary heirs to Austria’s artistic heroes? From darkly poetic films to specialist record shops, here’s a selection of distinctively Austrian cultural highlights.

  • Issue #131
  • 14 min read
A man in plaid shirt looking out over mountainous Austrian landscape with trees in foreground
Culture

The Ten

From Caribou's most intimate album yet to Tefaf Maastricht's encyclopaedic treasures and a bold new Oklahoma arts space — ten reasons to listen, visit and explore this week.

  • Issue #131
  • 8 min read
Two women touching foreheads intimately on a beach with ocean and cliffs in background
Design

Architecture

From a French-influences Montréal studio to a green building in the heart of Taipei, we highlight some of the design industry's best new works.

  • Issue #130
  • 5 min read
Architecture
Business

Second life

Former executives trading boardrooms for studios, bakeries and beyond: meet the senior professionals who abandoned status and salary to pursue the work they were always meant to do.

  • Issue #130
  • 10 min read
Second life
Affairs

Cities

We speak to Phoenix’s young and upcoming mayor and explore the (very) hot topic of pyrogeography.

  • Issue #130
  • 4 min read
Cities
Affairs

Defence

The Chagos Islands, Canada’s first female sergeant major and the UAE's arms industry.

  • Issue #130
  • 4 min read
Defence
Affairs

The opener

How to improve street lighting, shopfronts and city transit, a celebration of rats’ lives and dogs’ dinners and why the solution to our modern malaise is simplicity itself.

  • Issue #130
  • 8 min read
The opener
Travel and restaurants

Critical mass

Restaurant openings can buoy neighbourhoods and set a city’s culinary agenda. We asked our favourite food writers for the inside scoop on the launches to look out for in the year ahead.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 7 min read
Critical mass
Culture

Let’s make it a good one

It's a new year and time for a list. Ours is a rundown of things set to make life better in 2020, from clever new businesses to cultural openings. Here's to a hopeful year.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 8 min read
Let’s make it  a good one
Business

Outside the box

E-commerce packaging is a growing environmental problem. From mushroom moulds to intelligent boxes, we meet the people and companies with sustainable solutions to the disposable packaging industry's biggest challenges.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 1 min read
Outside the box

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