Mashrabiya

Travelers headed to the Red Sea coast in Egypt have much to look forward to at the Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh, thanks to its recent multi-million-dollar expansion. Located on a stretch of private coastline, Arabian architecture and palm and

Several decades ago, the area around Yasmine Hammamet was just a stretch of open land beside the Mediterranean Sea on Tunisia's northern coast. Today it is a trendy resort with more than 40 hotels including the Alhambra Thalasso.

Ask the founders of Roman and Williams, who for two decades have designed homes, hotels, restaurants, clubs, galleries, stores, furniture — even birdhouses — bathed in a luxe patina.

The climate crisis is making extreme heat waves more frequent. Cities can ease them with thoughtful design.

Making windows out of wood and stone in antiquity.