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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 >>
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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) >>
- 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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