Hints and tips:
...The wide-open landscape of this border country — especially the rolling forest of holm oaks known collectively as dehesa — was remarkably lacking in traffic, ugly modern buildings, or bothersome human presence...
...A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age....
...In this underlit room of warm wooden colours and eight-metre ceilings, almost everybody striding along the oak floors looks beautiful....
...A collection of “designposts”, carved forms in red oak conceived by 10 students from London design and architecture schools, are distributed across the city....
...Guinea revels in being the opposite of fashionable. It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...the government buildings in Chandigarh, the Indian city created by Jeanneret’s cousin Le Corbusier at the behest of Jawaharlal Nehru....
...His retune has resulted in a cocktail of concrete and pale oak, a blend of experimental 1960s structural optimism with the tasteful mainstream modernity of half a century later....
...One piece, by the Istanbul collective Architecture for All, documents the furniture and ad-hoc living spaces that sprang up during the Gezi Park political protests in the city last year....
...Many of the buildings were dilapidated and the local park was a resting spot for the city’s homeless and junkies. Now a sense of community is apparent....
...Also in Lincoln Park is the city’s most upscale restaurant, Charlie Trotters....
International Edition