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Dubai has just unveiled the world's largest skyscraper, like a hypodermic needle against the desert sky. In a feature last year J.M. Ledgard asked, "what is the point of the Burj Dubai? And does it even have a good view?" ...  read more »

Once editor of the Times, now a columnist on the Guardian, Sir Simon Jenkins is also an expert on architecture and heritage. As he takes over as chairman of the National Trust, he tells Rebecca Willis about the wonders of his world...  read more »

Le Corbusier was perhaps the greatest architect of the 20th century. He thought he could reshape mankind by creating a new form of city, yet he seldom practised what he preached, writes Jonathan Meades ...  read more »

After spending half a century in an enclosed order, the former abbess of Stanbrook has just taken a year out at art school in East  London. “There is a danger that enclosed life can become automatic, a bit precious,” she explains. Maggie Fergusson meets her ...  read more »

"How delightful to become an ice-sculptor," Will Smith swoons. "Shirtless, sweating hunks, they wield chainsaws like Byronic lumberjacks." Well, not quite. But it turns out it's not a little cathartic to smash up an ice penguin ...  read more »

Victoire de Castellane, the creative director of Dior Fine Jewellery, tells Isabel Lloyd about her obsession with flowers both natural and unnatural  ...  read more »

The local news is seldom good, but Johannesburg is still a place that can capture your heart. Caroline Lambert finds unknown pleasures in a city that is not  merely violent ...  read more »

"Russians will stuff dough with anything that doesn’t stuff them first," writes Jon Fasman. He devotes his latest RePasts column to the layered fish pie kulebyaka ...  read more »

"Hats are a passport to another world," declares Stephen Jones, the greatest milliner of his generation. Catherine St Germans considers his show of fanciful headgear at the V&A ...  read more »

Surf and the city are uniquely close in Sydney, where thousands of urbanites spend their days dreaming of the perfect break. Malcolm Knox, novelist and surfer, captures an obsession from the inside ...  read more »