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Dispatches
With so many of us opting to eschew the corporate nine-to-five — in favour of working our own hours, on our own terms — the creative class has become a global population all of its own; flitting between the globe’s cultural capitals, swarming...
Journal
Schwing! Now I know where my Allianz insurance premium went this year: a shiny new headquarters in Zürich with shiny new aluminium coated curtains. The building – a 20-storey tower and a five-storey annexe linked by four bridges – was designed...
Journal
Jeans. Where would we be without them? Cold at worst, in jail in most civilized countries. The ubiquitous denim wardrobe staple can be seen covering the legs of world leaders and working Joes, and everyone in between. Dress them up, dress them...
Gothenburg
Business hotels are more often than not just places where balding middle aged men go to sleep, shower and eat yoghurt before they head off to an equally ninspiring office on an industrial estate somewhere. Not anymore, not if Radisson and their...
The Edit
Do not adjust your internets, yes this is We Heart, and yes we are talking about the economy. Before you change the channel, this isn't the economy of Osborne and his soul-crushing red box from hell, or the triple-dip gloom-mongering of the...
The Edit
French photographer Frank Allais' exhibition is comprised of of two very different projects, with a common backdrop at its core – the street life of urban Britain. First up is Subverting the City, which takes the double-take and doubles it....
London
We were recently invited over to the launch of London's shiny new concept hotel - citizenM. Welcomed by waiters with painted mustaches and fabulously fruity cocktails, my first impressions were "this place is awesome". Surrounded by vibrant and...
Glasgow
As Bob's times were 'a-changing', the last few years have certainly seen business 'a-changing', as the modern business folk work - to quote another early 60s classic - wherever they lay their hat. Albiet, of course, should they lay their hat...
City Notes
Les Trois Cochons initially opened its doors 12 years back, occupying the site of a former butcher's shop. Back then it was the second restaurant of the Cofoco brand—today counting 14 restaurants to their name—and it was an early constituent of...
City Notes
Experience the bold new spirit of this ex-communist capital city care of Brody House, an inspiring bohemian hangout beloved by local creatives. There’ve been Playboy shoots in the boutique-hotel bedrooms and Budapest’s culture high and low is...
The Edit
Last night marked the opening of an exhibition that honours beer, brewing, and the culture that surrounds it. Gracing the walls of Barcelona's Garage Beer Co. — one of Europe's most forward-thinking breweries — Beer Culture is a three-month...
City Notes
A 1930s parking garage now houses Bergen’s latest design hotel, and what a beauty it is. Zander K (part of the De Bergenske family of five Bergen hotels, which includes Villa Terminus) connects to the the Norwegian landscape via a canvas of blues,...
Dispatches
'I love London and I’m fucking angry,' blurts Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who's spent more than ten years living in the capital. Bahari, who is also the founder of Paint the Change, a new initiative to push social...
Dispatches
In an old smokehouse just off Hull’s emerging cultural epicentre Humber Street, a writhing network of paper seaweed hangs from its wooden rafters. Created by Bethan Laura Wood, a London-based designer known for her flamboyant collisions of colour,...
Dispatches
Now in its fourth edition, Willoke is an urban contemporary art festival that invites guest artists to beautify walls throughout three municipalities between the Irpinia and Daunia areas of south Italy’s Campania and Puglia...
Dispatches
'I don't know. They grow, they bloom, they fade.' Says Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle of his floral friends. 'You can't hold on to them forever . Fashion is like that too in a way—it comes and it goes. They are symbolic for richness, romance....