City Notes
In the heart of London’s financial district stands an unimposing building that could be mistaken for one of the area's many suit-crammed offices. South Place Hotel might blend into the corporate milieu with its exterior, but inside is an Aladdin's...
City Notes
Cosmo es una bonita cafetería en Barcelona. Cosmo es también una galería de arte. I'm afraid that after just six weeks of Spanish lessons, that's about the size of my descriptive prowess. I think we've just learnt how to connect two simple...
City Notes
Once home to Sir Winston Churchill and lawn tennis inventor Major Walter Wingfield, the upmarket central London district of Pimlico has been chosen as the location for the third Artist Residence hotel and the first in the capital (the others...
The Edit
David Arnold's strategy seems to follow the reasoning that if you spend enough time in and around people going about their daily lives, something interesting will happen. And it's working brilliantly well for the Wisconsin native, who has built up a...
City Notes
In our opinion, if you're living in Melbourne you're already halfway to happiness and and a fulfilling life. Which isn't to say that you couldn't use a bit of help with the remaining 50%, whether it be professional advice, spiritual guidance, or...
Stuff Crush
Originally a tiny settlement at the dead end of a dirt road in Derbyshire, Matlock Bath quickly grew with the discovery of warm springs in 1698. The bathhouse built on the site attracted large numbers of visitors, and the breathtaking natural...
The Edit
Stuart Semple opens his latest solo exhibition at London gallery Delahunty this month. The British artist will present a new body of painted works, Anxiety Generation, a collection in direct response to “our culturally-induced anxiety crisis”....
City Notes
We're not believing for a second that Merivale, the operators of Ms. G's Asian fusion restobar in Sydney, didn't notice the name bears a striking similarity to a well-known Asian food additive, so that's a big tick in the pun column and therefore a...
The Edit
As Alaric Hammond points out, when you're living in The West it's hard to keep track of who your friends are - on a geopolitical scale at least. Pretty sure we're still sound with Bob from down the pub. How many insurgent movements have been armed...
Stuff Crush
You would think it would be ace growing up in southern California, what with all that sunshine, and the beaches, and the skate-surf culture. But looking at Brian Calvin's cast of skinny mopers and navel-gazing slackers, it seems not even the...
City Notes
Chef-owner James Henry admits he didn't have a big budget to make his dream of a Parisian restaurant come true, so the project involved rolling up his sleeves and doing much of the renovation work himself, along with his business partners. The...
Journal
Unless you're part of the deluded little group with their fingers in their ears shouting “lalalala” when anyone mentions climate change, you'll be convinced by now that Earth is in a bit of trouble of our own doing. The chickens are coming home...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Hospitals and medical staff are held accountable for anesthesia errors through medical malpractice laws, internal reviews, and professional standards. When a mistake happens, the key question is whether the provider failed to meet the accepted...
Dispatches
A lawyer can help after a concert injury by protecting your rights, gathering evidence, and fighting for fair compensation while you focus on healing. When things go wrong in a crowded, high-energy setting like a music concert, it’s easy to feel...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...