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Simon Johanson

Simon Johanson

Property Editor for The Age

Simon Johanson is a business journalist at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via X or email.

Hurtigruten has plied the Norwegian west coast for 130 years, originally as a postal service and later as a vital supply line.

A 130-year-old, essential ferry route doubles as a spectacular cruise

Over breakfast, a debate begins: is this a cruise or a ferry? Delicious meals, viewing lounge and other luxuries on one hand, a busy schedule of stops and cargo deliveries on the other.

  • Simon Johanson
Mandarin Oriental Group will operate a 196-key hotel in the Zaha Hadid-designed tower in Collins Street.

Mandarin Oriental to open in Zaha Hadid-designed Melbourne tower

Luxury hotel operator Mandarin Oriental Group will open its first Australian hotel in a stunning, vase-like Melbourne tower designed by the world's greatest female architect, Zaha Hadid, before she died unexpectedly last year.

  • Simon Johanson
Frank Dixon.

The house on a pole to be replaced by ... a house on a pole

Frank Dixon, who designed and built one of the Great Ocean Road's most-photographed attractions is 'sad' but resigned it will be torn down this week.

  • Simon Johanson