Posted in tourism | 13 December 2022 Maana Kyoto Two Japanese childhood friends have succeeded in realizing a thought and dream: “Creating spaces that inspire the mind and calm the heart.” Homes designed for hospitality, miniature-sized boutique hotels, if you wish, located in wooden houses. A type of ready-made wooden home, machiya houses are [...]
Posted in 'tourism' Many have heard of it but remain unfamiliar. Yet it is nearly essential to know about this tourist gem in the heart of East Jerusalem. Do you want to disconnect for even a few days? This unique hotel, its buildings, furniture, interior design and landscaping are unchanged from the past, yet unpretentious [...]
Odda is a town of 7,000 inhabitants in the Hardanger district of southwestern Norway. The region is known for the spectacular shape of its mountains, including the Trolltunga summit and the famous Fogefonna Glacier. Odda is located on the mountain slopes at the southern end of the Hardangerfjord. Pinterest Helen & Hard Architects, a Norwegian [...]
The work before you will surely surprise you, too. Its creator is Junya Ishigami, a Japanese architect, who received the 2019 Obel Award for this work. The representative of the Danish Foundation that awards the prize, Martha Schwartz, described the work as “architecture of space, not of an object, functioning in accordance with architectural conventions. [...]
A meeting with several friends in the Jerusalem mountains led us to our first acquaintance with a sculpture that is unusual in both its appearance and its location. Most of us had previously been unaware of its existence. As we approached and the entire sculpture came into view, we were thrilled by the sight: on [...]
DXA Nadim Karan Last March, the magazine’s editorial staff was first exposed to the uniqueness of the Alula Desert in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, we found ourselves lingering in a place unknown to us here in Israel. The Biennale of an artistic initiative, DESERT X, originally developed several years ago in California was held for the [...]
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