Rem Koolhaas: ‘In all my buildings, I’m trying to escape’
By Gisella Deputato and Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Rem Koolhaas is always looking for an exit. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the…
Continue ReadingBy Gisella Deputato and Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Rem Koolhaas is always looking for an exit. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the…
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Miami-Dade County told the Dolphin Company, which runs the Miami Seaquarium, in a letter on Thursday that the…
Continue ReadingBy Bibek Bhandari, CNN (CNN) — Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or…
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Deng, CNN (CNN) — A flight in China was delayed by more than four hours on Wednesday after a passenger threw coins into the engine,…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — An endangered red panda has been found alongside 86 other animals inside…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — As they walked through the stunning palazzo and gazed up at its frescoed ceilings, Kelly and Jesse…
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — It’s about to get easier for some foreign travelers to visit China, with the government…
Continue ReadingBy Susan Griffin, CNN (CNN) — When Helena Bonham Carter walked onto the set of 2012’s Dark Shadows movie, she was stinking of bourbon whiskey…
Continue ReadingBy Pau Mosquera and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores,” was published…
Continue ReadingBy Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
Continue ReadingBy Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully annexed…
Continue ReadingCNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
Continue ReadingCNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — The fountains at Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas were paused after a rare bird stopped by for a visit. A…
Continue ReadingBy Carlie Porterfield (CNN) — More than half of the countries that signed a declaration endorsing the Washington Principles — a set of…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Although Paris Fashion Week is usually the talk of the town — and every social network — this week the…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A new version of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” has been…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Touching down in a destination via private jet, helicopter or yacht – or some combination of all three.…
Continue ReadingBy Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Fashion writer Patrick Mauriès first met Karl Lagerfeld in 1981, after he quoted the fashion designer in a short…
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — When Napoleon first encountered a Camembert cheese, legend has it, he was so delighted he kissed the waitress…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan, has put new regulations in place for climbers amid…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Buildings in London don’t come much more historic than St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was designed by 17th century…
Continue ReadingBy Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — “Cruel Intentions,” the 1999 teen drama which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, tells the story of…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the Pritzker Prize’s 45-year history, no country has produced more winners than Japan. And on Tuesday,…
Continue ReadingBy Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Life in the United States is pretty expensive these days. Between seemingly eternal inflation, high interest…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It was the shirt that stole a generation of hearts and now it has sold for a swoonsome $25,000. The legendary…
Continue ReadingBy Daniel-Yaw Miller, CNN (CNN) — When AC Milan took the field last month in a home game against Napoli — a clash of two of Italy’s most…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Unscathed by the PETA protesters who disrupted her show, Victoria Beckham closed out the fifth day of…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It began with a bellowing horn. Then out came singer Sam Smith, trudging onto the catwalk wearing a tartan shawl…
Continue Readingby Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — New Year’s Eve 2020 was peculiar for many of us. As Coronavirus continued to sweep the globe, usual end-of-year…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It rains an average of 171 days per year in Singapore. But one hotel in the Lion City is taking a gamble to ensure…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump were among the high-profile international figures who jetted to…
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Leave it to Las Vegas to upstage Travis and Taylor, Usher and the most-watched Super Bowl ever. Sure, last…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, Abel Alvarado and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has evacuated its world-famous Blue Lagoon due to nearby seismic…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Circling the calendar for peak cherry blossoms, a very rare peek at post-pandemic North…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Victoria Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week show was disrupted by animal rights activists as they joined her models on…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Ed Pierson was flying from Seattle to New Jersey in 2023, when he ended up boarding a plane he’d never wanted…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Through oversized black-rimmed glasses, Iris Apfel for over a century surveyed the world with the confidence of…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-four floors up a Manhattan high rise, the photographer Ahn Jun sat on her windowsill one crisp day in…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Bianca Gignac was swimming under the stars, against a backdrop of colorful, cliffside houses, with a complete…
Continue ReadingBy Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Crowded, hot, noisy, hectic – subway systems can test the sanity of even the most hardened urbanite, but can you…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use…
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Airlines damaged or lost more than 11,000 passenger wheelchairs last year – and a new federal proposal seeks…
Continue ReadingBy Dan Q. Dao, CNN (CNN) — An-My Lê doesn’t identify as a war photographer. Though her body of work across the last three decades deals…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — This year hasn’t started well for aviation safety, with a runway collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport…
Continue ReadingBy Zahra Hankir, CNN (CNN) — Kohl use in the Middle East and North Africa is as rich and varied as the region itself. The earliest iteration of…
Continue ReadingBy Miquel Ros, CNN (CNN) — A little more than 10 years ago, in October 2013, a Wizz Air A320 arriving from Budapest made headlines by becoming…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Saki Toi, CNN (CNN) — Geisha and maiko (teenage apprentices training to become geisha) are women who perform Japanese…
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