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...Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...Then, in the early afternoon, you turn left again, into the desert....
...Now it has a second edition, Double Lake, right on the pristine lake with pine forest all around. There’s a mix of teepees, wooden cabins and traditional gers to stay in....
...Swim in the lake in summer, snow-shoe over it in winter, put a tune on the jukebox or play pool in the pub. The whole thing is a Bruce Weber meets Ralph Lauren fantasia of luxury Americana....
...informs the design of the lavish mansions, where the brick walls are covered in a coating of earth and lime in the manner of adobe bricks (Villa A – a 9,688sq ft house with five bedrooms, a 115ft swimming lake...
...For months, I shuffled this little device around my apartment, spending days at a time with each of the potted denizens of the living room....
...The old friends’ desert retreat in the Karoo, which ideally would feature in my every February?...
...In Lisbon, meanwhile, all eyes are on The Art Gate, housed in a monumental 670sq m apartment in Chiado....
...Due to open in the spring, it will have just 26 expansive suites, 21 of them with views across the lake towards Mont Blanc....
...It’s early evening and the lake is bathed in golden light. Families drift about on swan-shaped pedalos....
...the Lake District that I’d been wanting to visit for years....
...In 2017, a Bill Gates-run investment company spent $80m on a piece of Arizona desert land to build a “smart city”, tentatively called Belmont....
...The first phase includes 482 freehold sea view apartments and waterfront villas with 7m-high ceilings and private lifts....
...The landscapes, colours and sunsets were magnificent, as was our stay at Amangiri on Lake Powell in Utah – the perfect, relaxing end to our trek....
...apartment in The Royal Atlantis Residences with a view of Dubai’s skyline More homes at propertylistings.ft.com Against the grain In 2016 the UAE, which is 80 per cent desert, imported $43.5m worth of...
...For the week before the US’s Labor Day holiday, Burning Man, the annual alternative lifestyle event, creates a temporary city of around 70,000 people out of an inhospitable patch of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert...
...In 2003 the Botanic Garden established Windy City Harvest Youth Farm for disadvantaged young people living in Chicago’s so-called “food deserts”....
...Its windows look out over sheep fields to a lake, and Little Langdale beyond, among the prettiest of the Lake District villages. We loved our week there....
...Skiers are continuing to desert the world’s most popular slopes....
...The five-storey Passive House Bruck is a complex of 46 apartments in Changxing, a city west of Shanghai....
...Being lent an apartment in Tel Aviv in the early 1970s that was locked when we got there....
...The building the couple eventually bought was then divided into three apartment units....
...Tim Hayward Gardens Gardens of the Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from...
...From a distance it looks like a grey battlement of Soviet apartment blocks flecked with satellite dishes. Up close, though, it morphs into a city of considerable style....
...But in Changxing, a county on the banks of Tai Lake in Zhejiang province, a much more concentrated city has sprouted from the fields....
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