ME London – From Building to Bathtub
“WE work from the scale of the city down to the detail of a door handle.” So reads one of the strap lines on the homepage of Foster+Partners’ website. As I discovered when, aged 22, I took my first pr...
Catching Reykjavik’s cultural wave
Down a side street in downtown Reykjavik, a sharply dressed crowd is huddled inside an elegant wood-panelled room, masses of bodies packed sardine-like into the cosy space. Pencil-sketched portraits on the wa...
Can architecture heal? Glass visits the newly opened Centre for Cancer and Recovery in Copenhagen
We generally accept that our physical surroundings impact our moods and feelings, but the question as to what effect they have on our physical health is less well-explored. It is commonly accepted that body and...
Portrait of a woman
Charlotte Rampling is one of fashion and cinema’s most enduring icons, immortalised by Helmut Newton, muse to Yohji Yamamoto, revered by legions of creative greats. Glass spends a day in Paris with a living l...
Style Meets Sustainability – Eco Fashion Week
When it comes to creative thought and human ingenuity there really is no limit. This is especially apparent in the ever-evolving fashion industry. Being the third most environmentally damaging industry in the...
Design emerged
“We do not to have a signature but rather a handwriting. We like to tell stories in different ways.” This is how Meadham Kirchhoff have described their style. That the French-English designer duo do things th...
Dog Day Afternoon
After having finished touring in Japan earlier this year and playing Wire’s Drill: London festival, Comanechi members Akiko (aka Keex) and Simon caught a breather before launching into their latest UK tour,...
Mascotte Store preview
Pop goes the champagne bottle as we sink into our seats surrendering to a relaxing hand and arm massage from Rituals. No, we’re not at a spa, nor are we at a country retreat. We were in fact in the midst of bea...
(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...
The actress
Olga Kurylenko has achieved the impossible. She has successfully established a serious acting career after achieving the mixed blessing of starring as a Bond girl in 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The question o...
Some kind of love
Mick Harvey, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer, likes to keep on top of things. Since exiting the Bad Seeds in 2009, he’s busied himself with production, working on PJ Harvey’s Let Engl...
Peace From the Bottom of My Art
Topical yet misunderstood, Iran has long been under the watchful eye of the media for its ongoing political unrest – thus people are led to think it is a place devoid of artistic expression. This couldn’t be fu...