City Notes
Britain hasn't seen an influx of Nordic folk on this scale since they were pillaging their way around our villages a thousand odd years back, but this time around they are all about giving, especially in the area of London...
Journal
The popularity of all things Scandinavian just keeps growing; first they came with their furniture, then their gloomy but gripping detective series, and now their food is making the journey to mainland Europe at brasserie Björk (no relation to the...
Journal
We're not sure which must be more exhausting – being Peter Blake or curating a retrospective of his work. Spanning six decades, the multi-disciplinary art of Blake is so diverse in style that it's hard to believe the same person is responsible....
City Notes
The restoration of the building now called The Efendi Hotel certainly wasn't a rush job. Formed from two ancient houses in Acre, Israel, the project took eight years to complete under the watchful eye of the local Antiques Authority, necessitating...
Journal
I hadn't seen film-maker Andrew Thomas Huang's award-winning short Solipsist (at the bottom of this post) before I watched his video for Icelandic pop mentalist Björk's track Mutual Core. If I had, I would have been forewarned that this...
City Notes
Champagne and hotdogs? Of Course! Why has no-one thought of it before? Well probably because champagne is (largely) overpriced shit, and hotdogs are (usually) made from the mechanically-recovered fifth quarter of some extremely unfortunate...
Stuff Crush
Happy birthday BD Barcelona Design! The Spanish company is celebrating its 40th like I imagine I will, buying myself a present. BD have gone a bit more upmarket than a DVD box-set and a takeaway pizza though, commissioning Spanish design supremo...
City Notes
Visionary architect and urban planner Bruno Taut fled Germany when the Nazis won power, having both the wrong religious and political beliefs, but by that time he had already left an indelible mark on the country through his forward-thinking social...
City Notes
This is a country house with a difference – it's right near the beach for a start, in the Algarve. Fazenda Nova is also not decorated in what one would imagine as traditional country house style. Nova by name, nova by nature. The ten-suite...
Journal
In Empty Room, a new series of works from California-based artist Adam Caldwell, the concept of dualism – the separation of body and mind or spirit espoused in religion and philosophy – is examined, along with the effect of technology on modern...
City Notes
You might think an ecclesiastical theme an odd choice for a bar, but let's not forget that devout monks have been knocking out home-brew for centuries. In fact, to understand the Bishop of Ostia, in the Melbourne district of East Brunswick, you have...
City Notes
It's a nondescript building, oddly reminiscent of a defunct estate agent's with its grey door and opaque windows set into the blank brick. It's also in a place you've probably never heard of, unless you know a lot about Belgium. So why is We Heart,...
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
Most families don’t begin with a grand financial plan. It’s usually smaller than that. A random conversation on the couch. Someone asking, “Hey, are we actually saving enough?” And then… silence for a second. Because no one really knows...
Dispatches
Scheduling problems rarely show up all at once. It starts with one double-booking. One technician running late. One patient showing up for the wrong time slot. Somebody shrugs, fixes it, moves on. No big scene. At least not yet. Then it keeps...
Dispatches
Ten kilometres west of Dubrovnik’s Old Town, on the south-facing flank of Koločep Island, there is a sea cave that briefly — and only briefly — turns the colour of liquid sapphire. The effect is physics, not folklore. For about three hours...
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...