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An icon reborn Airport terminals

The former TWA terminal
at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has re­­opened
as a hotel lounge following extensive refurbishment – and it’s not the first airport ­building to reinvent itself.
Desert flower Las Vegas

In Las Vegas, dreams can come true as swiftly as the winds that blow in from the desert. But the city also has its share of people who have found true happiness in the capital of glitz. Meet some of them, who told us how.
What’s in your bag, Víkingur Ólafsson? Baggage Check

"To me, playing the piano is like breathing" ...

Julian Schnabel

Profile

Painter JULIAN SCHNABEL’S meteoric rise to fame in the unpolished New York of the 1980s fizzled out as fast as it had begun – he fell out of favor for his incessant posturing. That did not stop him from purchasing a former stable for a good two million dollars and creating a monument to himself by converting it into an 11-story palazzo in 2007. From there, he and his clan held sway over the New York art scene, he continued to paint unabashed – and also made a name for himself as a film director. We visited this exceptional character in his home.

Fleet

Exciting insights provides impressions of work on the ground and in the air, reports and videos on the subjects of transportation and technology and spectacular 360° views

The Ladies’ Man

Interview

Peter Lindbergh was the most influential photographer of the supermodel era of the late 1980s. A documentary film marking his 75th birthday has just premiered in movie theaters; it traces the photographer’s path from his early beginnings as a youngster in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Region to the star photographer he became. What he particularly admires about his famous models is their courage to show themselves without makeup. “Courage,” he says, “is more interesting than nudity.”

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