Liv Lewitschnik
Travel
Where to tuck yourself into bed in Zürich, the addresses you need in Paris, and the latest news for business travellers.
Architecture/Design
Swedish summer houses, a Portuguese museum and an interview with Philipp Mainzer of e15.
Floor fillers
Deutsche Börse operates Germany’s biggest stock exchange in Frankfurt. Valued at €26bn, it's one of the world's largest exchange organisations. Its Frankfurt trading floor was recently updated with state-of-the-art technology.
Site seeing
Tokyo's Marunouchi district is in the latest stage of a 20-year transformation. The next phase includes Mitsubishi’s Marunouchi Park Building, a 34-floor office tower, shops, a rose garden and an art gallery.
Fashion
Monocle enjoys São Paulo fashion week Tomorrowland collaborates with Belgian designer Jean-Paul Knott, plus Prada platforms, Incotex trunks and Banana Republic comes to London.
Culture
Music: Vampire Weekend and Chris Bathgate. Film: 3:10 to Yuma and Battle of Haditha. Art: A New York art cpp[ and exhibition picks. Books: JG Ballard's autobiography, Granta and Madam President.
Up for adoption
From Germany’s power-generating homeowners to Genoa’s congestion-cutting van-share scheme and Estonia’s booming flat tax economy, here are 10 public policy initiatives that ministers and mayors should study with care.
Roots finder
Provenance is key as we turn our backs on mass-produced products. Consumers want authenticity and, as many companies have found, they’re happy to pay for it.
Studio twenty-four
Al Jazeera English is the first 24-hour English-language news channel from the Middle East. Based in Doha with global hubs, it launched in 2006 and now reaches an audience of 80 million.
Bloom town
We visit the Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, one of the world’s biggest flower auctions, to meet the companies behind the scenes of this multi-billion-euro industry that handles 20 million cut flowers every day.
