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The Trip to Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam’s sky-high, booming metropolis
Discover Ho Chi Minh City, where street food, historic alleyways and honking motorbikes now mix with skyscrapers, minimalist showrooms and upscale patisseries
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The Trip: after decades of isolation, Tashkent is on the up
Wallpaper* dispatched Deyan Sudjic, former director of London's Design Museum, to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. Here – as seen in our January 2020 issue (W*250) –he captures the wonder of its Soviet modernist gems before they are eclipsed by brash new construction
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Developers Uribe Schwarzkopf are ushering in a new dynamic era for Quito
Following on from a journey to Quito in our Summer 2020 issue, we sit down with Tommy and Joseph Schwarzkopf of leading Ecuadorean developers, Uribe Schwarzkopf to discuss a city in transition
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The Trip: explore Helsinki’s saunas, shipyards and side streets
Weekly at Wallpaper*, ‘The Trip’ takes you on a detailed tour of an under-explored town, city or territory, direct from your living room. This week’s feature is from our July 2012 issue (W*160), focusing on the then World Design Capital of Helsinki. There, photographer Jonathan de Villiers and writer John-Paul Flintoff witnessed a surge of public spiritedness, as locals embraced public saunas, pop-up lunchtime discos, communal contemplation and buying hitherto forbidden rounds of drinks in the bar
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The Trip: explore the ancient and modern worlds of Nara, Japan
Weekly at Wallpaper*, ‘The Trip' takes you on a detailed tour of an under-explored town, city or territory, direct from your living room. This week, we journey to the revered Japanese capital, Nara, which has been experiencing a cultural renaissance, led by a savvy herd of young creatives
