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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
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 January 2020 issue (W*250), when we dispatched Deyan Sudjic, former director of London's Design Museum, to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. Here, 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
