Last year on Been-Seen, we featured a story about an amazing underwater restaurant in the Maldives called Ithaa. It's been so popular with our readers we thought you might like to see this new picture its designer just sent us, which was taken two months ago. Thanks to Mike Murphy.
Recently, large museums in New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon and Madrid have undergone major architectural transformations, and it's no surprise that London is following suit. Last year, plans for the proposed extension of Tate Modern were approved, a £215 million project that will turn the British gallery into a true reflection of the contemporary art it holds within its walls.
In the north of Vietnam, there is a place of great beauty, with the greenest mountain valleys, gentle rivers meandering through them, and elegant people. This land has a temple with the most enchanting name. And you travel there on the oddest form of transportation.
In January, the beaches of New South Wales, Australia, were turned into a giant bubble bath. Kids jumped in and surfers took to the waves. But what exactly was going on?
It's exciting to see how many new green buildings are being created these days. But, in the midst of all the clean-lined, high-tech, futuristic constructions that are appearing, let's not forget other designs that have taken the concept of 'futuristic' a little less seriously. Take, for example, the fantastically whimsical Hundertwasser building, Waldspirale ('Forest Spiral') in Darmstadt, Germany.
A village of star-shaped white linen tents in the middle of the Tunisian Sahara. Scattered beneath the palm trees around a shimmering free-form pool cut from the desert sand. This mirage is the Pansea Ksar Ghilane, in the palm plantation of Kar-Ghilanes oasis. And I want to go there right now.
