Architecture
Built to keep people out, transformed castle now the UK’s most welcoming
A five-year renovation has transformed an 11th-century castle into the UK’s most accessible heritage attraction.
- Rob McFarland
10 engineering marvels that need to be seen to be believed
If you want to bring your travels up to date, consider the world’s more recent yet often overlooked engineering wonders.
- Brian Johnston
The Sydney Opera House’s little sister and the other jewels of Antwerp
Belgium’s second city Antwerp comes first in the realm of boldly embracing old and new architecture.
- Julietta Jameson
Banishing bland: The most stylish hotel and airline cabin designs in 2025
From an 1881 merchant’s house transformed into a boutique hotel in Athens, to Mondrian’s entry into Australia on the Gold Coast, we celebrate the brands getting creative and banishing bland.
- Traveller Team
Born again: The greatest revamps and reinventions in travel this year
These award winners show how taking something inherently beautiful or unique and adding zeitgeisty features can double the joy.
- Traveller Team
The US suburb dominated by one of the world’s greatest architects
In the Chicago suburb of Oak Park lies a trove of work in the Prairie Style that is a delight to behold.
- Caroline Gladstone
When it comes to hotel design, a few pot plants don’t cut it any more
The new buzzword in hotel design is “biophilic” and it’s transforming city properties.
- Lee Tulloch
One of the world’s most beautiful art deco hotels is not where you’d expect
The “Paris of the East” might be a modern metropolis, but many of the buildings from its heyday 100 years ago are still standing.
- Justine Costigan
More than 50 years on, grand Singapore hotel goes green
More than 35 per cent of the Grand Hyatt’s staff has been with the hotel for more than a decade, some for multiple decades.
- Julietta Jameson
‘Landscrapers’ and record breakers: 10 stunning new buildings set to open
Some of the world’s most impressive new structures are set to open this year.
- Belinda Jackson
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