Eating Out
São Paulo-based architecture and design studio, SuperLimão, have drawn inspiration from Portuguese aesthetic traditions, its evocative use of tiles and embroidery, to realise the latest restaurant for Brazilian Chicken chain,...
Eating Out
Anthony Falco — a former pizza chef at Roberta’s in Bushwick, Brooklyn — has sponsored São Paulo pizza restaurant Bráz Elettrica in a bid to give the locals a place to enjoy the Italian staple in an unpretentious local; kitted out with bona...
Hotels
Quite the hotspot of the 1970s and '80s, Rio de Janeiro's Hotel Nacional was frequented by the likes of Liza Minnelli, BB King and James Brown; and was the venue of choice for the esteemed Rio Film Festival. Built in 1972 by Brazilian starchitect...
Hotels
Injecting her design sensibilities into Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, and Los Angeles, Mama decided it was time to put roots down elsewhere; somewhere beautiful with a pounding pulse. Dreaming of golden beaches, rolling hills, and caipirinhas,...
Hotels
Sometimes the stars just align, when all falls into place; right place, right time. Then there's times when it looks like the stars have merely aligned in a stroke of magnificent fortune but, truth is, someone somewhere has put in an awful lot of...
Art & Culture
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. It is both exact, and inevitable, but intangible and theoretical too; both the day after today and the the abstract notion of where we are going. All of us. Designed by Spanish starchitect Santiago Calatrava, in his...
Culture
As you'll know from the telly adverts, Red Bull gives you wings. In the sense of a big dose of stimulants, at least. The energy drink company is not content with perking people up through enhanced hydration alone, however, and has provided a major...
Eating Out
And so to the Brazilian megatropolis of São Paulo, where we come upon Bien!, a restaurant offering functional food that claims to be able to beat stress, dodge diabetes, and even spice things up in the bedroom department. The concept comes from...
Hotels
Although the room layout of this 1910s mansion in São Paulo has been preserved, almost everything else has been redesigned by young architect Felipe Hess to create the We Hostel Design project – a sort of live-in gallery showroom where every...
Culture
I've got to hold my hands up here. The information we were sent on Nova Galeria Leme was, I must conclude, written in Portuguese and banged through the mangle of Google Translate before it reached us. I'd have had more idea what they were trying to...
Lifestyle
São Paulo's Bar Numero takes its title from its entrance and main focal point – an eye-catching façade made out of a large numeric artwork. Once inside the building, which resembles the entrance of a temple or cave, a narrow and completely...
Stuff Crush
“I am not sure whether my father totally understood my fascination with his photographs of package holidays,” explains artist Jake Clark, whose obsession with seaside resort architecture has been informed by his childhood growing up in the...
City Notes
Opening today, 28 February, Hôtel Hana Paris is the latest addition to the Adresses Hotels Collection, a fancy group of decadent boutique hotels that includes Monsieur George and Saint Tropez's La Ponche; the five-star luxury property set to...
City Notes
Passing away at the age of 60 in May 2021, Michelangelo Lovelace was a Cleveland-based artist renowned for his vibrant paintings depicting quotidian scenes of urban life, policing, poverty, war, and personal investigations of Black Identity....
City Notes
An urban sanctuary so laid back it's horizontal, Pátio do Tijolo is a truly beautiful 24-room boutique hotel that offers its guests a fusion of authentic Lisbon tradition with soothing contemporary aesthetics. Drawing on the 'slow life' concept,...
Dispatches
As a single adult male in my forties, I was exploring various adult hookup apps first. My limited offline presence and introverted nature objected to my interest in finding ladies for meetup and casual encounters. But then a good friend of mine told...
Dispatches
Recently, the broad implementation of new technologies has dramatically reshaped traditional practices across multiple sectors, increasing operational efficiency and elevating service quality. The restaurant industry is a prominent example of this...
Dispatches
Ripley's Super Fun Park Rides, also known as Ripley's Believe It or Not! Adventureland is a popular amusement park that has been providing fun and excitement for families and thrill-seekers since its opening in 2002. From thrilling roller coasters...
Dispatches
Dubai - a city of superlatives, where innovation meets tradition against a glittering skyline of architectural feats. If you've got your sights set on a visit to this opulent oasis in the desert, there are some crucial things you should know before...