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8 Advanced Longevity Technologies You Can Try Around the World
From pressurised oxygen to plasma filters and gene therapies on a Caribbean island – a world tour of the technologies reshaping how the wealthiest patients pursue a longer life.
Dubai Design Week and Downtown Design Gather the Region’s Boldest Creative Minds
This year’s programme looks closely at how design and creativity shapes our relationships with one another and with the places we inhabit.
The New Utopias: Cities Designed for Longer Lives
From the foothills of the Himalayas to a floating platform off the coast of Korea, a new generation of cities is being drawn from scratch around one question: how do we live longer and closer to nature?
Capella Dubai Will Bring Biohacking Auriga Spa to Dubai Peninsula
Capella Hotel Group has announced its first hotel in Dubai – a 115-key property on the Jumeirah coastline, scheduled to open in 2030.
Wellbeing
Hôtel Royal Évian: A Century Ahead of Wellness
On the French shore of Lake Geneva, a Belle Époque palace brings together Alpine nature, restorative rituals and the enduring European tradition of living well.
The Rise of Social Wellness Clubs in Dubai
Dubai's newest wellness clubs suggest that the future of the industry may depend as much on the communities they create as on the facilities they provide.
Inside the New World of Experiential Wellness
From longevity voyages to immersive thermal spaces and ancient rituals, wellness is becoming one of the clearest expressions of experiential luxury.
Aster Launches Thrive by myAster, the UAE’s First DHA-Certified 100+ Biomarker Test
More than 100 biomarkers, a clear read on your biological age and a personal plan to act on it – all now in your phone, with Thrive by myAster.
Longevity
Lakes, Alps and Altitude Rooms: 10 Longevity Clinics in Europe to Know
From a resort on Lake Constance to an 850-year-old monastery in Tyrol reborn as a metabolic clinic, Europe keeps reinventing the science of living longer.
Time, Privacy, Longevity: The New Rules of Hospitality from FHS World 2026
Three days in Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah, more than 170 speakers and one word that kept returning to the stage: longevity.
Why the Longevity of the Mind Begins with Clarity
When everything competes for our attention, a clear mind becomes one of our most valuable assets. And one of the hardest to protect.
Dubai Approves New Longevity Strategy With AED 35 Billion Economic Target
Longevity is becoming part of Dubai’s next chapter, with a new strategy designed to turn longer, healthier lives into a major new sector.
People
Alejandro Bataller: Inside SHA Emirates, the World’s First Healthy-Living Island
We spoke with Alejandro Bataller, Managing Partner of SHA and AB Living Group, about the vision behind SHA Emirates as a new longevity ecosystem.
The Age of Intention: Inside the New Logic of Longevity Medicine
Dr. Jaffer Khan, Founder and CEO of AEON Clinic at Atlantis The Royal, on what longevity medicine really means – and why most people still don’t understand it.
Inside the Deep Cube: Ilya Blokhin on the Architecture of Sleep
The CEO and Founder of wellness startup the Deep Cube, Ilya Blokhin, on deep sleep, magnetic fields, lucid dreaming, and the technology that is teaching us to rest again.
BioTwin Founder Louis-Philippe Noël on Bringing Digital Twins to the UAE
We talked to BioTwin founder about what it actually means to have a human digital twin – and why the Emirates are moving faster than anyone else.
Living
Six Senses The Palm Opens in Dubai with a Seaside Longevity Clinic
This November Six Senses opens its first address in the UAE on Palm Jumeirah, built around balance, community and longevity clinic.
The Ritz-Carlton Al Wadi Desert Launches 35 Private Residences in Ras Al Khaimah
Set within a protected desert reserve, the new collection brings private villa living together with The Ritz-Carlton’s hospitality and wellness experiences.
Can Outdoor Spaces Make Us Feel Better? In Conversation with NextSpace CEO Martin Fryzelka
Some places invite us to linger almost immediately. The reason is rarely one object, but the way light, privacy, landscape and proportion work together.
Mohamed Badie: “Architecture Should Not Dominate Human Presence”
Mohamed Badie, one of the Middle East’s most distinctive visual architects, on fluidity, sculptural movement and a constant search for new forms.
Travel
Aman Launches Its 2028 Private Jet Expeditions
Aman and Remote Lands reveal their 2028 private jet expeditions – five departures, four itineraries and a single thread of stillness running from Kyoto to Istanbul
Inside Canyon Ranch Austin: A New Wellness Destination in Texas Hill Country
Set across 600 acres overlooking Lake Travis, the newly opened Canyon Ranch Austin brings together preventive healthcare, advanced recovery, women's wellness and nature-led hospitality.
Life Longevity: Minor Hotels Turns Wellness Into a Lifelong Relationship
With its new brand, Minor Hotels links resort, city and home into one continuous ecosystem of care.
Our Habitas Makes Its UAE Debut with a Retreat in Hatta Mountains
After AlUla, Agafay and other remote landscapes around the world, Our Habitas is bringing its Caravan concept to the UAE for the first time.
Culture
The AI Artist Question
A 24-foot installation at MoMA, dreamt by a machine trained on two centuries of art. An Egyptian artist coaxing his home city out of a dataset built elsewhere. Both lead to the same question: in the age of AI, who is the author?
Seven Museums Changing What Culture Can Do to the Body
Wellbeing is often discussed through hotels, clinics and longevity centres. But cultural spaces may be just as central to the future of human restoration.
Abu Dhabi Gives Saadiyat a New House of the Arts
The emirate has commissioned Dar Al Funoon Abu Dhabi, a Frank Gehry-designed performing arts centre beside the Saadiyat Cultural District, to open in 2030.
Frieze Abu Dhabi 2026: A New Chapter on Saadiyat Island
From 19 to 22 November, the world’s best-known contemporary art fair opens its first Gulf edition on Saadiyat Island – 89 exhibitors from 37 countries and the Emirati artists at the centre of the conversation.
