The latest (15th) edition of Knight Frank’s annual The Wealth Report was published last month. I find these interesting because they give you a global view of how and where capital is flowing into real estate (specifically prime real estate). London, for example, did rather… Read More
Today we visited BMW Welt (World) and the BMW Museum in Munich. BMW Welt was designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU out of Vienna. It is the result of a design competition that the BMW Group held in 2001. Construction of the ~73,000 square meter facility was… Read More
I’m on a flight right now reading the latest issue of Monocle Magazine in a seat that barely accommodates the length of my femur. This month’s issue has their annual ranking of the top 25 cities in the world. Munich is first, which is not… Read More
On Monday of this past long weekend, I went for a quick bike ride over to the Beaches, up to Little India, and then back down to the St. Lawrence Market. The ride along Lake Shore and through the Beaches is one of my favorites.… Read More
The NH Deutscher Kaiser Hotel building in Munich looks like this: It’s a fairly conventional tower on top of a podium. However, photographer Victor Enrich decided to reimagine what this tower and podium could look like. In fact, he did it 88 times. Here’s the video.… Read More
For the sake of our global brand, Toronto taxis need to have a consistent brand – the same car, the same colour. I’ve thought about this before and written about it somewhere, but it’s worth repeating. I was driving around downtown on Saturday night and… Read More
When I told my friends that I had booked a weekend getaway to Detroit, I got responses like: “By accident?” and “Why on earth would you want to go there?” But that’s exactly what I did last weekend. I went to Detroit. I wanted to… Read More
