‘If Edinburgh had a love child with Brighton'
Norman Miller spotlights Dunedin as a wonderful - but overlooked - New Zealand city getaway.
Quayside at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Quayside at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
Knots and Leaves
Knots and Leaves
Dungeness
Dungeness
The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet
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Oysters first alerted marine biologist Corina Ciocan to an overlooked global marine pollution crisis. Ciocan, a marine biologist at the University of Brighton in England, has worked since 2018 on an ongoing study of plastics pollution in Chichester Harbour, an outwardly idyllic boat-dotted inlet a two-hour drive southwest of London.
NORMAN MILLER picks up the story of the alarming source of global marine pollution she highlighted.
Style By The Sea
Fringed with harbours and Baltic inlets, Helsinki is stuffed with glorious architecture and home to world-renowned design. As Norman Miller discovers, the food is elegantly put together too...
Why West Wittering’s secret seaside neighbour is an ideal summer escape
Norman Miller spotlights a fascinating West Sussex coastal hideaway away from the crowds.
A new life for London's lost rivers
Few visitors know that London has 640km of waterways – and there's a serious movement taking place to restore these "blue corridors" to their former glory.... Buried rivers have returned to the light, while others are being rewilded in ways that will improve the lives and environment of millions of people.
Meet New Zealand's Maori winemakers
There are powerful distractions when sampling wine at The Canyon, the seductive wave-shaped black timber tasting room at Tarras Vineyards. While savouring its award-winning pinot noir, admire how its curves echo the backdrop of the muscular Central Otago mountains, framing a wide green canyon below. And then reflect on how the wine in your glass is also a liquid window into inspirational indigenous values.
Toheroa: A fabled shellfish that nearly vanished
As food obsessions go, how about the American who allegedly tried to buy New Zealand in order to gain exclusive rights to a special soup? Norman Miller delves into the toheroa story.
How Brighton & Hove became Britain's greenest food city
Long known as a progressive beacon, Brighton & Hove is quickly becoming a global model of food sustainability.
Finland's rising capital of food
I got my first taste of why Turku – the oldest city in Finland – has become a new Nordic food hotspot as I sampled my way through its 19th-Century Market Hall. The handsome red-brick building is set a block back from the River Aura, which flows through town and out into the Turku Archipelago – the world's largest archipelago, where around 40,000 islands stretch across the Gulf of Bothnia towards Sweden.
Three pioneering cities, one sustainable future: how lives will change if cities realize their climate goals
It’s the 2030s. Through bold decisions and inventive technologies, three cities have reached the ambitious climate goals they set a decade earlier. From bike highways to fish lifts, here’s what urban life looks like in the age of kept promises.
The ancient French town of floating gardens
Carved out of the River Somme's marshy hinterland, the Hortillonnages is made up of 110km of slender canals that have led Amiens to be dubbed "the Venice of the North".
Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces?
What happens when an artwork starts to decay – or is deliberately designed to? Norman Miller explores how galleries and museums meet the challenge of 'inherent vice'.
Break With Tradition
It’s been 100 years since the birth of modernism and its new way of
looking at the world. Celebrate with a city break and see some of the
best architecture of the era.
The UK's heritage apple renaissance
An alarming 81% of traditional apple orchards have vanished from Britain, but activists are planting British heritage varieties in community plots in all shapes and sizes.
The Dutch city testing the future of urban life
With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give us a glimpse of what living in cities could be like in years to come?
A Weaver's Life
Sussex maker Annemarie O'Sullivan harvests her own willow withies, from which she weaves beautiful baskets inspired by ancient traditions.
The animals that detect disasters
For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes?...
The Buildings Made From Rubbish
Extracting materials is wreaking havoc on the planet. Could the world's growing mounds of waste hold the key to sustainable construction? Norman Miller gets digging.
NSFW: Gaze Upon the Horrid Melting Flesh of Neural Network Porn
We’re pleased to bring you a different version of Futurism, containing stories from the horizon of hedonism. Welcome to The Science of Pleasure. Norman Miller meets the artist exploring the strange visions that result when AI learning programs gaze at porn.
Scotland's mysterious ancient artificial islands
While no one is sure exactly why these ingenious islets were constructed, they provide a unique window on human life all the way back to Neolithic times in Britain.
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