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  • Taína Blue Retreat: A Converted Power Station on the Greek Coast

    Taína Blue Retreat: A Converted Power Station on the Greek Coast

    The building spent fifty years generating electricity for the island’s population, then another twenty years standing empty while its owners debated what to do with it. What they eventually did was sell it to two architects who had been waiting for exactly this kind of opportunity.

    The conversion has taken seven years and produced something that resists easy description: twelve rooms arranged across three floors of a former turbine hall, organised around a philosophy of radical material honesty.

    “We did not want to hide what this building was,” says one of the architect-owners. “We wanted to celebrate it. The machinery is gone, but the scale is still here, and the scale is extraordinary.”

  • The Case for Slow Travel in an Age of Maximum Throughput

    The Case for Slow Travel in an Age of Maximum Throughput

    The modern model of travel is optimised for throughput. You fly in, you see the things, you photograph them, you leave. The holiday is a collection of experiences, and the measure of its success is how many have been accumulated.

    You cannot understand a place in three days. You can see its monuments and eat its food and take its photographs. But understanding requires time, repetition, and the kind of accidental encounter that only becomes possible when you are not in a hurry to be somewhere else.