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by Laura Short Stella Maria Baer As I am getting very little sleep at the moment, I often find myself daydreaming about traveling. I have traveled abroad many times, I have seen many beautiful places but still I long to see more of the world. I would...

Italy based architects Francesco Di Gregorio and Karin Matz have re-designed a traditional farmhouse located on Föhr, a small German island in the North Sea.… Read more

Every man to-day realizes his need of sun,’ insisted Le Corbusier in Towards a New Architecture, ‘of warmth, of pure air and clean floors…’ The modern movement in architecture was obsessed with health and hygiene. New methods of construction could raise...

Tripadvisor recently published their 2014 Travellers’ Choice Islands Awards. Three of Europe’s top ten islands were in Scotland. That number increased to six out of the top ten for the United Kingdom. I didn’t have to read any of the...

Taking the etymological path, the seemingly pedestrian term ‘thing’ actually had quite an illustrious origin – with the Old English term þing actually meaning ‘assembly’ or council’, derived in turn from Proto-Germanic *thingam or ‘assembly’. And as...