Crunching a list of variables about innovation and sustainability, we rank the world's smartest cities, from New York to Hong Kong (and with an unexpected winner).READ»
Startup culture is increasingly moving from the U.S. and the U.K. to the developing world. Nothing is a better example of this new cultural universality than Le Web, this week's tech conference in Paris, where 3,500 people from 60 countries have come to see each other and worship at the altar of innovation.READ»
It's finally here. After a few months of a trial run, Parisians can now hop into an electric car whenever they please. And if it goes well, there might be a program in your city soon.READ»
What is good design? It’s a question that comes up regularly, either implicitly or overtly, when assessing an object. By and large, we look for examples of function and beauty. (If we considered criteria like sustainability and long ...READ»
French artist Arnaud Lapierre has unveiled an eye-popping new outdoor installation at the 18th-century Place Vendôme in Paris. Lapierre took the plaza’s Vendôme column, a vaulting bronze obelisk from the Napoleonic era, and set ...READ»
Did you know that in 1910, Paris got flooded so badly that it became, as one writer puts it, "a reluctant Venice, gondolas and all, virtually overnight"? Me neither, but this creepy video by Olivier Campagne and Vivien Balzi--which ...READ»
Surprisingly, not New York. In fact, compared with select cities in Europe and Asia, Manhattan’s downright cheap.
According to a chart by Credit Sesame, the average cost per square foot in Manhattan is $1,068. That’s about $500 ...READ»
Who comes to mind when you think of Danish furniture design? Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen? All great masters, and all dead. So where are all the young talented designers to carry on the tradition of Scandinavian ...READ»
Avant-garde Belgian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela has given a très-cool makeover to a fussy, luxury hotel in Paris, the high Holy Land of fussy, luxury hotels.
Maison des Centraliens reopened to the public in May with a ...READ»
On the Internet, anyone can be an artist. In Xavier Barrade’s hands, everyone is.
Barrade, a British artist studying in Paris, has masterminded an interactive, online drawing that’s got virtual space for as many as a million (a ...READ»
France has a gift for injecting its historic buildings with dashes of spectacular modernism, and with the freshly completed Gaîté Lyrique, in Paris, the nation has elevated this to a high art. A fussy old theater built at the height ...READ»
What do rich folk do when playing the stock market has lost its luster? Buy vintage cars, of course! Collectibles like old-school Ferraris, Maseratis, Mercedes-Benzes, and Rolls-Royces have never been more popular, but the inventory ...READ»
Philippe Starck, the flamboyant French demigod of interior design, has unveiled his latest handiwork: a refurbishment of Le Royal Monceau, a palatial old hotel in Paris’s eighth arrondissement.
The space is actually pretty tame ...READ»
The 17th BMW Art Car was unveiled in France yesterday, two months after artist Jeff Koons had previewed it before the world's media. Originally a 3-D computer-aided design, it's lost a dimension, been printed onto vinyl and wrapped ...READ»
