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Swire Properties to close The Opposite House in Beijing, group’s first hotel, as it eyes redevelopment to retail property

Swire Properties is shutting down the group’s first ever hotel, The Opposite House in Beijing, after 16 years to make way for an “innovative retail landmark”, according to a spokesman. …

These Are the World’s Most Visually Stunning Museums

by Haddis Thomas

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images At a 2014 press conference covered by El Mundo, Frank Gehry proclaimed that “98 percent of everything …

Japan’s toilet tours: designer public loos to flush away dark, dirty reputation of old haunts

by Walter Watson

Public toilets across Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward have become the Japanese capital’s newest – and most unexpected – tourist attraction. In the last two years, 17 public restrooms across the ward …