Since their opening five years ago, Baku’s Flame Towers, curving and incandescent, have become a global architectural landmark. Their creator, the Texan-born, London-based architect Barry Hughes, gives Claire Wrathall the inside...
In 2018, the year the former Azerbaijan Democratic Republic celebrates its 100th anniversary, we talk to Shirin Melikova, Director of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, about the space that showcases the...
A little more than a century ago, Baku was home to the world’s first great oil rush, and the city turned into an art nouveau gem. Now its oil barons’...
The Japanese art of wabi-sabi celebrates perfection within imperfection. But what happens when you mix it with industrial concrete? Mark C O’Flaherty finds out As Carrara marble is to Europe,...
With the advent of the Kindle, it seemed there was no turning back from e-book world domination. A decade on, however, and traditional book stores are seeing a surge in...
The coming of spring is fêted worldwide, but in Azerbaijan it is extra special and part of a month-long celebration leading up to the new year known as Novruz Bayrami...
Brush away those January blues and take in some new vistas. Music may have put Austin on the map but the Lone Star capital has evolved into a magnet for...
The centenary of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the advent of the Soviet state have prompted a slew of high-profile exhibitions in London...
Winter is upon us, and that means it’s the season of hot drinks, ice skating and the wonderful seasonal outdoor markets that populate cities such as Berlin and Vienna....
