Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam ~design urban planning Video 10:16, published Mar 23 2020 8 votes
Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language ~life Article 358 words 13 votes
Denmark now has two Little Mermaids. The famous one is suing. ~arts Article 1259 words, published Aug 17 2021 7 votes
How one little boat (and me) held up miles of London traffic at Tower Bridge ~transport Video 7:44, published Aug 9 2021 7 votes
The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction – cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries ~design architecture Article 1949 words 4 votes
You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue ~design architecture Article 293 words, published May 23 2021 5 votes
Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs ~design urban planning Article 441 words 8 votes
Can kids navigate their way across London alone? ~life parenting Video 9:58, published May 27 2019 9 votes
Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties ~design architecture urban planning Article 9 votes
Cycling through the streets of Amsterdam ~design urban planning Video 57:41, published Jun 15 2020 7 votes
Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks ~design urban planning Article 6 votes
An ephemeral artwork made with thousands of footsteps in the snow has captured attention near Finland's capital of Helsinki ~arts art.public art.ephemeral Article 256 words 19 votes
The new $45 billion metro system under construction beneath Paris ~transport Article 910 words 12 votes
Statue of a woman made out of rubble from Beirut mega explosion - Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer ~arts Link 6 votes
The farmer that lives in the middle of Tokyo Narita Airport ~humanities.history Video 5:58, published Sep 29 2020 4 votes
The rat tribe: Meet the million migrant workers living beneath Beijing's streets ~life housing work Video 7:08, published Jan 26 2015 7 votes
How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century ~design architecture Article 13 votes
The Paris morgue provided ghoulish entertainment ~humanities.history Article 689 words, published Sep 10 2020 11 votes
Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo ~tech Article 517 words, published Aug 28 2020 6 votes
Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy ~design architecture Article 404 words 8 votes
The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects ~design architecture Link 11 votes
Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000 ~news lebanon.beirut Article 219 words 37 votes
Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso ~design architecture Article 435 words 5 votes
If the Louvre was on fire, should we rescue the art first or the people? ~arts art.fine Article 691 words 23 votes
The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish” ~arts Article 333 words 8 votes
London Tube map made from a working circuit board ~transport Article 412 words, published Jun 23 2020 8 votes
Greek demonstrators hurl firebombs towards US embassy in Athens ~news usa greece.athens crime Article 97 words, published Jun 3 2020 13 votes
One of Copenhagen Zoo's giant pandas escaped from its enclosure early on Monday and roamed the park before staff were able to sedate it and bring it back ~news denmark.copenhagen Article 236 words 4 votes
South Korea re-imposes some coronavirus restrictions after spike in new cases ~health Article 760 words 8 votes
At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband ~news norway.oslo crime Article 7 votes
In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy ~enviro climate change Article 782 words 5 votes
Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages ~health healthcare Article 351 words 10 votes
Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy ~finance economics.doughnut Article 1038 words 11 votes
The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro ~transport Article 332 words 6 votes
Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, Muriel Bowser order residents in Maryland, Virginia, DC to stay at home ~health Article 1663 words 7 votes
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019 ~transport Article 906 words 6 votes