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Remember when your mother would tell you that it’s what’s on the inside that counts? As I approached Doha’s new Mondrian Hotel, my first thought was that it could have been built with that maxim in mind. From without the building is distinct, albeit for the wrong reasons, and is…
Say the name quickly and it sounds a lot like the name of a a world-renowned hotel chain. But unlike the luxury American brand it riffs, this one isn’t a part of the Hilton portfolio, it doesn’t have a spa, and breakfast is more likely to include eggs shakshoukeh with…
The Palestinian Museum honours the country’s history and represents an optimistic investment into its future. It’s also a remarkable architectural project. A museum to represent any one people, or nation, seems destined to be a reductive project, all the more so when the nation in question is as fraught and…
What Was New Apart from the customary exhibits, this year saw a newly introduced Residents section in which eleven artists from around the world were chosen and invited to spend a few weeks in Dubai to create pieces inspired by the local environment. The show’s organisers were particularly chuffed about…
She was close enough to touch. Her skin, a rich, purplish black looked soft, almost velvety and as she drifted beneath me, her eyes swivelled back, watching what I was doing. She wasn’t alone. All around me, her companions swam. Some were as wide as a dining table, others even…
Just because something is really amazing doesn’t mean it’s perfect. But there’s a place in the middle of the Indian Ocean that comes pretty close. The turquoise water is crystal clear, the sand is sugary white and the air is so pure and clean that by the time it makes…
It was a tall order if there ever was one: build a Louvre in the desert, in a city with a negligible tourism industry and a dubious (at least from a European perspective) cultural scene. But there was no turning back once a 400 million Euro deal was signed between…
Taking its name from the Sanskrit word for peace, Aman, plus Pulo, which is Tagalog for island, Amanpulo in the Philippines may date back to 1993 but it’s still one of the world’s greatest island escapes. 1. Yeah okay, so the bad news is that the journey to the Pamalican…
The coconut palms chittered in the breeze. Wending down the hill from the Amanwella resort, I reached the beach, a curving strand of sugary sand that ended at a rocky promontory about a kilometre away, where the swaying sign of a small café could be seen tucked into the trees.…
Milan doesn’t have it easy. Competing against the likes of Venice, Florence, Rome, Portofino, Cinque Terre and the Amalfi Coast is not an easy task and for too long, the country’s business hub has simply been dismissed as the ugly duckling of Italy. Yet there’s been something of a renaissance…
