01Main city beach in Wellington
02Soul Bar and Bistro in Auckland
03Wellington’s Central Business District (CBD)
04New Zealand stock exchange in Wellington
05Hugh Stevens, head of BNP Paribas Security Services NZ
06Lunchtime runners on Wellington’s waterfront
07Wellington CBD seen from Queens Wharf
08Craig Stobo
09New Zealand Institute’s Auckland headquarters
10Surfers at Lyall Bay, 15 minutes from Wellington’s CBD
11Mark Weldon, chief executive of the New Zealand stock exchange
12Freyberg Pool in Wellington’s waterfront
13View from BNP Paribas’s offices in Wellington
14HP Tower, Wellington, home to JP Morgan and BNP Paribas
15Auckland (CBD is in the left of picture)
16Dr Rick Boven, director of the New Zealand Institute
17An after-work football match, with Auckland Museum in the background
18The Bellini Baar at the Hilton, Auckland
19Longroom on Posonby Road, the place to be and be seen in Auckland
There are countries that are simply too big to have one time zone, while others have always been a bit eccentric in their time-keeping. But for some, such as New Zealand, enterprising minds are trying to turn time to their economic advantage.
Issue 18
In the far north of Canada the frontier lifestyle is still alive and kicking – and nowhere more so than in Yellowknife. First they struck gold, then diamonds, and now there’s gas. But today those frontier folk are just as…
Issue 10
With highspeed trains stealing more business travellers by the day, Europe’s top rail operator is betting that improved sleeper trains can also take back the night. For a world rediscovering the benefits – and pleasures …
Issue 25
Engineering company Arup is the name that connects the Sydney Opera House to the proposed Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi. The owner-operated firm’s pioneering staff are the go-to guys if you want to construct the impossible…
Issue 5
If you can’t secure a job as an urban planner by day you can always become an ornamental fish hobbyist by night and engineer a perfect underwater world. At the heart of the €10bn international trade in ornamental fish is…
Issue 26
Once a provincial backwater, the Jordanian port town of Aqaba is in the midst of a vast regeneration programme that will reposition it as the ‘gateway to the Levant’.
Issue 26
It’s an isolated chip off the old Russian bloc that’s surrounded by wealthier EU nations. Its future is anyone’s guess – military outpost or beach resort? But with a dynamic leader and wise investment, Kaliningrad could…
Issue 7
Recent high-profile security lapses and safety concerns have damaged the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency’s standing. Aware of its PR failings, the body has launched a hunt to find the nuclear industry’s most beautiful…
Issue 24
In the next in our series decoding the DNA of success – of anything – we visit a 90-year-old tractor firm in northern Italy that through innovation and careful brand acquisition has quietly remained an engineering power…
Issue 51
The mining boom in Western Australia has seen both the natural and economic landscapes transformed. New services fly thousands of workers in and out each week. So Monocle went to dig a little deeper.
Issue 34
There are countries that are simply too big to have one time zone, while others have always been a bit eccentric in their time-keeping. But for some, such as New Zealand, enterprising minds are trying to turn time to their…
Issue 61
Who puts the lead in your pencil? Probably a German firm with a history of making fine writing instruments. And it’s a past these players want to highlight as they do battle with those pesky digital gadgets. Meet the stars…
Issue 29
How Bulgaria became a world leader in snail production, the material difference of the new Boeing 787 and the German gunmakers tapping into the US market.
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