If you close your eyes and block out the visual cues—the red ocher 18th-century buildings, the brightly colored bazaars, the monkeys scrambling maniacally over the dusty rooflines—you would still know you were in Jaipur, India.
Hip hotels, restaurants, and museums are transforming the city of Socrates.
Exploring the California Academy of Sciences, the greenest museum on earth.
The Good Hotel, which opened last November, claims to be the first “hotel with a conscience.” Anthropomorphizing aside, the hotel does have many admirable qualities: low prices, eco-friendly touches, and a philanthropic streak.
With its architectural mishmash of storybook English cottages and Swiss Alpine chalets, the small town of Carmel-by-the-Sea in Northern California resembles a Disneyland version of Europe. But walk a few blocks to Carmel’s steep, sandy beach and the view is pure California: a rugged Pacific coastline spangled with rocky outcroppings and ghostly cypress trees.
My best-laid plans were scrapped the moment I arrived in Oaxaca City. “You want to see the real, authentic Mexico, right?” asked Alejandro Ruiz, one of the city’s most renowned chefs, as he giddily steered his SUV through narrow cobblestoned streets.
Today, if you tallied the world’s design capitals, you’d be forgiven for overlooking Honolulu. But when it came to modern architecture in the 1950s and ’60s, all eyes were on Hawaii’s capital city.
Could a Northern California backwater become the next Napa?
As the pace of change quickens in Bhutan, so do efforts to preserve its centuries-old Buddhist art.
A determined group of midcentury modern devotees is helping this kitschy desert city embrace its future while preserving its past.