by Maria Vogiatzaki | Apr 9, 2021 | Spaces
Starting out as an architect in the 1990s, I was so eager for work, and excited about the creative possibilities, that turning down a project seemed inconceivable. It was thrilling, then, at a conference a few years ago, to hear French architects Anne Lacaton and...
by Ronald Tardiff | Mar 30, 2021 | Opinion
This week Netflix dropped it’s long-teased documentary, Seaspiracy, about an ocean in peril, drowning in plastic, pillaged by overfishing, and rife with all manner of lawlessness. And to a large extent, this is true. In fact, despite it’s rather sweeping...
by Catherine Del Monte | Mar 10, 2021 | Places
Just over Sir Lowry’s Pass, an hour’s drive from Cape Town, is a slice of hikers’ heaven: the renowned Blue Mountain Trail. Regarded as a punchier sister to the Green Mountain Trail — a four-day, 60km slackpacking hike founded in 2007 — the Blue Mountain Trail is a...
by Nabeela Karim | Feb 24, 2021 | Beauty
Simplifying your skincare is not just better for your skin, but better for the planet too. We should all be familiar with the three R’s of waste hierarchy – reduce, reuse, recycle. While there is a focus on reusing and recycling, reducing is the one R that often goes...
by Jackie May | May 15, 2020 | Fashion
Nkwo Onwuka’s creative journey started in childhood when her mother, a dressmaker, showed her the way around a sewing machine. “We were never really in front of the television. We read books, went on ‘expeditions’, wrote stories, painted and we were always...