Culture

Utopian visions of the city weren't only the remit of Archigram and comic books. Companies like Ford, Olivetti and Disney, driven by strong ideas about the relationship between community & business tried building their own versions.

What makes the global culture industry fall for some countries and not others?

What is home? This question is particularly pertinent in today’s global world, where people not only travel, but spend long swathes of time living in a foreign country—sometimes nomadically. Why do they choose to do so? Are they running to or from?

Bought at auction in 1997, Fougaro (which translates to ‘smokestack’) has been under renovation for the past 15 years and has at long last unveiled itself as a creative paradise in 2012.

The pair sat down with Patrick Tanguay (PT), Editor-at-large of The Alpine Review, to chat about gentrification, the ways Berlin has changed over the last fifteen years, and whether affordable cities destroy ambition.

Patrick Tanguay, editor-at-large of The Alpine Review, sat down with the pair to talk about managing relationships on social media, the benefits of drunk tweeting, and the increasing intimacy of social communication.

After years of economic decline, the Japanese, animated by the principles of perfection, specialization, craft and obsession that they have long brought to their own culture, are now applying the same standards to craft.

What makes Barca so good? Three great lessons that apply beyond the immediate confines of the sport.

Irish brothers Jonathan and Mark Legge, who grew up in a family of architects, have built an online “Shed” in which they carry a curation of simple, beautiful and occasionally odd locally crafted "objects of integrity".