Hotels
Housed within an impressive 1896 townhouse on Antwerp's buzzing Nationalestraat, Maison Nationale City Flats & Suites offers travellers a home-from-home experience in Belgium's largest and most creative city. The property is manned by wonderful...
Art & Culture
Founded in 1810, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is the largest art museum in Flanders, home to masterpieces from the 14th to the 20th centuries including Flemish Primitives and the Antwerp Baroque, on to an extensive collection of...
Shopping
So the saying goes: one man's rubbish is another's devastating design detail. Or something like that. In Antwerp—our favourite European city of style—Dutch designers, Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans, have applied their inspired...
Eating Out
Set over several floors of a repurposed townhouse designed by architect Jules Bilmeyer, Antwerp's newest hotspot, Luddites, is a place for people to take a break from the digital world; the singular blend of bookstore and wine bar offering a fine...
Eating Out
Fed up of making dinner plans, the ones where the sole reason is to have that long overdue catch up with friends (food aside of course), only to find yourself in a place you feel the need to either speak in hushed tones or feel the tormented wrath...
Hotels
Housed within five monumental heritage-listed structures, Antwerp hotel August pays homage to its history as an Augustinian cloister; Belgian architect and longtime Graanmarkt 13 collaborator, Vincent Van Duysen, creating a hotel that retains the...
Eating Out
Something tells you things are going to go swimmingly when the waiter sits down one of the most incredible cocktails you've seen and tells you: "we only serve cocktails with the first two dishes of the tasting menu, I hope that will be okay with...
Bars & Nightlife
Boasting UNESCO World Heritage status and dating back to 1521, the Cathedral of Our Lady—a Roman Catholic basilica in Antwerp known for housing significant works by Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens—may now be attracting churchgoers and...
Eating Out
Every port city in Northern Europe seems to have rediscovered a collective love for their waterfronts. From Liverpool to Rotterdam, Hamburg to Bilbao, these once great bastions of industry and trade have transformed into contemporary living spaces,...
Eating Out
Among the renovated warehouses of PAKT, a creative and entrepreneurial site in Antwerp’s dynamic Berchem neighbourhood, a new pizza restaurant is raising the Standard in good eating; feeding the hungry masses with delicious sourdough pizzas and...
Culture
With today’s generation continuing to push the boundaries of flexibility, balance and location in their working lives, Antwerp's Fosbury & Sons has recognised the design-hungry needs of its city’s entrepreneurs, freelancers and digital nomads;...
Hotels
The exterior of Graanmarkt 13 is so fresh, white and deliciously clean it makes me want to lick it. Is that weird? It sounds a bit weird when I say it out loud. Let's gloss over it. The lovely old house is in Antwerp, Belgium, and it's a house in...
City Notes
Combining a traditional downtown vibe with the atmosphere of the historic Edo period, The ONE@Tokyo is a 142-room hotel located in the east side of Japanese city's 23 wards. A place to gather and meet, the property is home to a stunning ground...
City Notes
Space Copenhagen have completed devastatingly beautiful interior design works on Mammertsberg, a hotel and restaurant housed within a 1911-built classic Swiss villa that overlooks Lake Constance on the border of Germany, Austria, and...
City Notes
After calling Clerkenwell home for more than 20 years, Vitra have made the move further east, choosing the Grade II-listed Tramshed building in the heart of Shoreditch, as their new London flagship headquarters and showroom. Originally a power...
City Notes
M.A.D. Collectif (Mode, Arts et Divertissements) is a Montreal-based group of creatives formerly known as Groupe Sensation Mode, and they have recently moved to a new 3,600 square foot space in the city's lively Village district, partnering with...
Dispatches
Since the popularity of cannabis use is growing, and it's getting legal in many areas, it's not a problem to find a store to buy cannabis products. But not all of them provide a good range of products or test their products in third party labs to...
Dispatches
Leftover spray paint can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it can be an inexpensive way to give your home a quick facelift. On the other hand, having too much unused paint can be a hassle, as you need to find ways to use it up before it...
Dispatches
No one can deny that technology and the internet have changed not only the business landscape but consumers' day-to-day lives, giving them more flexibility and freedom. But people often forget that this freedom has come with a price. Technology,...
Dispatches
Fire watch services are a vital part of fire safety in buildings. They protect property and people from fire hazards if an alarm or sprinkler system is down or out of commission for maintenance. If your business or facility is subject to a fire...