You may not know her name, but the striking work of self-taught hair artist Elisabeth Anayes Niouky is certainly turning ...

In an industry characterized by tradition, tough economic realities have seen luxury watchmakers looking to innovate.

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but also ...

Hand built by Édouard T. Arsenault in the 1980s, The Bottle Houses are located on Prince Edward Island, just off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. The project, which features a six-gabled house, a ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.

What fits your personal belongings and can cost a full year’s salary — or two, or three? In the 1990s, you might have said “a house,” but today a valid answer could also be a Hermès Birkin bag, the ...

Like many women in South Korea, Bae Eun-jeong never left the house without makeup. She hated her natural face. Bae’s beauty regimen routinely took two hours, to the point that she’d give herself less ...

If we could visualize the year ahead, what color would it be? The abstract thought is an annual consideration for the experts at the Pantone Color Institute, who trawl through high-fashion runways, ...

Archaeologists have found an octagonal sword dating from more than 3,000 years ago at a burial site in the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. The sword is so well preserved that it still gleams, ...

Dozens of 3D-printed homes have been built across the world – to house a family in the US state of Virginia or members of an impoverished community in rural Mexico. The world’s largest 3D-printed ...

The Repulse Bay is a luxury apartment complex in Hong Kong that is famous locally for the curious hole cut into the body of its undulating façade. It is not alone. Along the coast of Hong Kong Island, ...

Whether you’re a student of architecture or a casual admirer of interesting buildings, Singapore is an observational hothouse (to go along with its tropical climate). The city-state’s buildings ...