For people who love contemporary architecture, trying to find striking new buildings in the historic center of Rome is about as easy as trying to go gluten-free there. But if you move a little farther out - or a lot - stunning treasures can be found.
John Hooper says he is often a little puzzled by Italy.
More Chinese holidaymakers are visiting Japan due to easier requirements for multiple-entry visas and the depreciation of the Japanese yen against the US dollar.
Before London snagged the 2012 Olympic Games, Stratford was among the poorest areas of the capital, renowned mostly for its industrial pylons and an imposing fortress of discarded appliances known as "fridge mountain". More than nine years and about $13 billion later, these wetlands east of Hackney have been transformed into a gleaming sports and shopping hub.
It was my good fortune that it snowed two days before I arrived in Lijiang in late January. Not only was it sunny and warm by the time I arrived, but I could see the snow-capped Yulong Snow Mountain glittering magnificently in the sun against the bright blue sky.
Liu Jianhua is trying to break down the cliches associated with the delicate material to make it reflect social problems, Lin Qi reports.
Chen Xiulin, when in his 20s, flew a military plane over areas where China had conducted its first nuclear missile test in 1966, to collect some air samples.
China will hasten the process of building cultural centers in countries along the ancient Silk Road as part of an expansion plan for such institutes. The central government is looking to have at least 50 such centers by 2020, up from the current 20, officials from the Chinese Ministry of Culture said during a recent Chinese New Year celebration in Istanbul.
Ever since the silk trade between China and the Roman Empire blossomed in the late first and early second centuries, China has been a rich source of inspiration for the West.
As the Siberian wind blows, fur might be one of the most stylish ways to fend off the winter chills.
Raf Simons is a thinking designer, more intellectual than emotional. But that doesn't mean he can't layer a fantasy concoction atop a base of guipure. Recently, he has challenged his own biases by exploring retro, breaking down elements of various eras and seeking to reinvent them. Here he studied specific sartorial references as well as more amorphous auras of three decades, drawing on '50s romance, '60s experimentation and the wild freedom of the '70s. He funneled it all through his modernist eye and the bastions of imagination realized that are the Dior ateliers.
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