5 Unusual Hotels Worth Understanding Before You Book
Some hotels make the room part of the destination. You might sleep inside a sphere among trees, look out from a converted aircraft or wake t...
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Architecture: Remarkable Buildings & the Ideas Behind Them
A memorable building changes the way we look at its setting. Explore homes, landmarks and unusual structures, with a clear distinction between completed buildings, historical projects and architectural visualisations.
Start with Córdoba Travel Guide: Patios, the Mezquita and a Slower Day and Setenil de las Bodegas: A Guide to Spain’s Rock-Covered Streets.
Abandoned Places in Photos: What the Beautiful Images Miss
A room filling with sand, a ship carrying its own little forest, a house disappearing under vines: photographs of places changed by time can...
Italy’s “Free Castles” Story: What the Heritage Scheme Meant
A castle with your name on the door is an irresistible daydream. That is why headlines about Italy giving away historic buildings travelled ...
City Panoramas From Above: How to Read an AirPano View
From the street, a city arrives in fragments: a facade, a crossing, a bridge and the next corner. From above, those fragments begin to conne...
Infinity Pools: Choose the View and the Stay That Suit You
An infinity pool seems to let the water continue straight into the landscape. The edge becomes difficult to pick out, the horizon takes over...
Dubai’s Rosemont Rainforest Hotel: The Design Behind the Story
Two towers, a sky pool and a lush landscape raised above the city: the Rosemont hotel concept gave architecture fans plenty to talk about wh...
Unusual Holiday Rentals: Find the Character, Check the Details
A night in an unusual building can become part of the travel story. You remember the sloping wall, the unexpected window or the way a tiny c...
8 Historic Towns to Explore with Time and Curiosity
A historic town is more than a collection of old buildings. It is a place where people still open shops, carry groceries, repair roofs and f...
10 German Castles and Palaces: Choose a Visit with Character
Germany’s castles do not all tell the same story. Some preserve medieval fabric, some grew over centuries, and others deliberately imagined ...
8 Real Places with a Storybook Atmosphere
Some places invite a story before you know anything about their history. A castle above a forest, a curved canyon wall or a station carved i...
Les Espaces d’Abraxas: Reading the Architecture Near Paris
The façades at Les Espaces d’Abraxas seem to borrow the scale of a palace and the drama of a theatre. Windows repeat in enormous patterns, a...
Green Magic Homes: The Idea Behind the Grass-Covered Houses
A curved doorway beneath a grassy roof is enough to start a daydream. The Green Magic Homes concept attracted attention because it brought t...
Warde: The Giant Flowers That Changed a Jerusalem Square
One moment the flowers droop. The next, their red forms open above the square, turning a patch of ordinary urban space into something playfu...
Clementinum Prague: What the Library and Tower Tour Includes
Painted ceilings, dark bookshelves and antique globes make Prague’s Clementinum library look like a room built for an adventure story. There...
Øresund Bridge: The Denmark–Sweden Crossing Explained
One moment there is a bridge over open water. A little farther along, the road disappears into an island. The Øresund crossing looks like an...
Casa Brutale: The Cliff House Concept Beneath a Pool
A swimming pool forms the roof. Below it, bare concrete walls frame a vast view, while most of the house disappears into the cliff. Casa Bru...
Russia in Photographs: Looking Beyond a Pretty Caption
A colourful dome beyond autumn trees can hold your attention long before you know the building’s name. Travel photography often begins that ...
Patrick Vale’s Colossus: New York Drawn Line by Line
At first the page looks impossibly large and the marks impossibly small. Then rooftops gather, windows multiply and a recognisable New York ...
Archipelago Cinema: Thailand’s Floating Film Experience
Imagine arriving by boat, settling onto a floating platform and watching a film with limestone cliffs rising around the screen. Archipelago ...
9 Curious Places: The Stories Behind Their Strange Looks
A line drawn across a desert, a stone face rising from grass or a rock with a trail behind it can be wonderfully puzzling at first. The best...