What follows is a selection of some of my articles that have been published over the past few years.

• Oscar Niemeyer auditorium, Ravello
  Ravello, off South Italy's coast, is one of the most beautiful and romantic spots on earth >>
  
  
• The Expressionists
  Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay are literally bouncing around with anticipation, excitement, fatigue, and >>
  
  
• The Anatomist
  ‘This is Else,' says German designer Julia Lohmann as she welcomes me into her home in a leafy North London neighbourhood >>
  
  
• Punta della Dogana, Venice
  A dream-team of engineers, builders and architects have transformed Venice's imposing historic customs house >>
  
  
• Rising up by baking organic bread
  Bread making is “uniquely powerful as a catalyst for change” says Andrew Whitley >>
  
  
• Land-sharing
  Pairing would-be gardeners with people who have land but don't use it is a simple but groundbreaking concept >>
  
  
• Ray Johnson
  “I'm a collagist, not a painter” Ray Johnson says in How to Draw a Bunny, a documentary about his life >>
  
  
• Fine prison dining
  In one of the more surreal experiences of my life, I recently found myself heading to the medieval town >>
  
  
• A Crash Course in Climate Change
  I've been to global-warming school. That's right, I'm a proud graduate of “the first course in Britain >>
  
  
• Pesticide rules – what Georgina did next
  Georgina Downs had been enduring flu-type symptoms, painful blisters in her throat and mouth >>
  
  
• Sink your teeth into green dentistry
  If you've ever sat in the dentist's chair and wondered where all the latex gloves >>
  
  
• Human Warming
  Just think about the excess body heat of a crowd of commuters. A turn-off, or turn on? >>
  
  
• Going to Extremes
  Most people would've revelled in being the youngest Britons to climb Everest (at age 18) >>
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• Giles Miller - a profile
  Looking slightly worse for wear behind large sunglasses and under a tweed cap, Giles Miller is >>
  
  
• Grand Finale at the Heathrow Climate Camp
  Sure, as I wandered around the camp on Friday there was an air of harmony and fun about the place >>
  
  
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
  Mark Smith is The Man in Seat Sixty-One, an independent website that not only encourages rail travel >>
  
  
• A moment in time
  Thundering music, strobe lighting, bodies hurtling through the air, contorting in mid-flight and >>
  
  
• Model Trains
  As I wander around London’s edgy, creative Shoreditch neighborhood in the city’s East end >>
  
  
• Sapphire Rain
  If you haven't heard of Eva Menz yet, you will. The German-born, London-based designer >>
  
  
• There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
  Look at a field filled with flowers, and what do you see? A field filled with flowers >>
  
  
• London Walking
  “Hello, I'm your guide,” a melancholic female voice intones in my ears. “Follow me >>
  
  
• Fuksas Movement
  Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas may be a busy man, but he's also a terribly jovial one >>
  
  
• A new month, a new hunky priest
  Next time you buy bus tickets from your local edicola take a look around you. Among the assortment >>
  
  
• Jazz in Rome: la Casa del Jazz
  It is hard to believe that the magnificent and recently restored 1930s villa standing in a vast >>
  
  
• Exciting times for cinema in Rome
  Italians are going to the cinema less than ever according to Italian research company Cinetel >>
  
  
• Northern Disclosure
  Mårten Claesson comes over with a big smile and a firm handshake. He is dressed in black jeans >>
  
  
• Studying the mafia at university
  Enzo Ciconte, former member of parliament for the Partito Comunista Italiano between 1987 and 1992 >>
  
  
• Magic Touch
  By the time I get through to Iginio Straffi, CEO of Italian animation company Rainbow, it is late on >>
  
  
• Stellar Hella
  When you meet 42-year-old Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, there is no exchange of pleasantries >>
  
  
• Checking up on Vatican tours
  The Vatican City may be the heart of Catholicism but as anyone who has ever been there knows >>
  
  
• Biennale Trilogy
  While the jury wrangled over the success of this year’s Biennale, critics agreed that the leadership of >>
  
  
• Craving the Crater
  The first time I visited Stromboli was in my imagination. After seeing the volcanic island in Nanni >>
  
  
• Making music in Piazza Vittorio
  An advertising company wanting to make a statement about ethnic diversity and integration in Italy >>
  
  
• Design Diva
  When I met Patricia Urquiola almost two years ago, I wondered why it had taken her so long to >>
  
  
• Varese Ligure
  It´s a sunny and breezy day as I walk around the old centre of Varese Ligure, a small rural >>
  
  
• Sweet Novembre
  Fabio Novembre is showing me round his Milan house, or perhaps I should say his house-to-be >>
  
  
• Highway to the sun
  Its recent 40th birthday went largely unnoticed and uncelebrated. Yet the Autostrada del Sole >>
  
  
• Floral Fantasia
  It's a rainy Monday morning and the final day of the 2004 Furniture Fair in Milan >>
  
  
• The station of the future - the future of the station
  In the early 1990s Rome’s Termini Station aroused at best a lack of enthusiasm >>
  
  
• Light fantastic
  For Richard Meier, fashion has no place in modern architecture. Meier’s commitment to >>
  
  
• Country Hospitality
  “As recently as 1995 there was nothing here,” says Luciana Pancera. She points to the rolling >>
  
  
• The Return of La Fenice
  As the flames soared up into the night sky illuminating the heart of Venice and slowly devouring >>
  
  
• Leaning towards abolition
  George Ryan Senior is an unlikely hero. As he speaks, his even tones and his expressionless >>
  
  
• Arc angles
  When the Vicariate of Rome commissioned the building of a new church in the mid-1990s as a symbol >>
  
  
• Prize pickers
  Citrons are fragile, sickly plants that are hard to grow and hard to find. With its rivers >>
  
  
• Rome Mapped Out
  Rome is located in the Lazio region of western central Italy (though for a Milanese or Venetian >>
  
  
• 10 things to do in...Rome
  You've visited the Spanish steps, Trevi fountain, Piazza Navona, the Roman Forum and the Coliseum >>
  
  
• Doing her own thing
  Edith Schloss is a small woman with an impish smile. “I was so worried I would not like you,” she says >>

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