Design / Architecture
Grey matters
Getting old is inevitable but providing for people when they do is too often skirted. Monocle has tracked down those making a difference and showing up the authorities in the process.
- 517 results for care
Business / CEOs
Handle with care
Rosa Lladró is the president of Lladró, the Spanish porcelain company begun by her father and uncles in the 1950s. Having ducked a manufacturing downturn in Spain, she tells Monocle how to combine family and financial…
Design / Architecture
Home visit
The origami roof of the new Copenhagen Center for Cancer and Health suggests that this is no ordinary hospital. Nord Architects have created a healing environment with thoughtful, original strokes. Their bold design won…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 August
Surreal arguments are Republicans’ health
Taking a leaf out of Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech book, Congressman Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania and Congresswoman for New York Ann Marie Buerkle decided that yesterday – 1 August 2012 – was a day which will live in infamy…
Design / Architecture
Home visit
The origami roof of the new Center for Cancer and Health suggests that this is no ordinary hospital. Nord Architects Copenhagen has achieved a design leap by creating a leafy courtyard and comfortable interiors.
Edits / Retail
Inventory no.22
Additions to our desks, shelves and cupboards include a Japanese wooden cutlery set for children, a perfect pencil case and a Spanish pencil sharpener fashioned with military precision.
End Point / Health
Observation
Staying in good health is about looking after what you have as well as thinking ahead. Speaking of which, join us soon at the new Monocle Café for an autumn pick-me-up.
Business / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 25 January
Rates of pay need to be made fairer for all
Should we really care that a chief executive is paid millions for running a private company?
Design / Architecture
Monocolumn
Tuesday 25 October
It’s curtains for glass buildings
Residents and visitors to any city in China should take care when passing glass buildings.
The Monocle Daily, episode 140
Why NGOs fall out with host states, we get the latest from Egypt’s presidential race, and ask if anybody still cares about music charts?
Affairs / Health
Best of the best
Good medical care is about more than mending broken bones – it also fixes nations. These are the countries and people building healthier states.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 10 July
A case for cars
I’m going to stick my neck out a little here and say perhaps, just a little bit, we need to be careful not to write cars out of our cities at the rate we currently are.
Design / Fashion
Wardrobe refresh
Ohori Park, home to the Fukuoka Art Museum, is the backdrop to our carefully curated show of spring womenswear.
Design / Architecture
Tower power
The new Tokyo Skytree, the world’s tallest freestanding tower, isn’t just about height. It’s a monument to the Japanese precision and care taken over its every detail.
Business / Entrepreneurialism
Peter Pan pensioners
Japan has the fastest ageing population in the world, and businesses are quick to provide architect-designed care homes and grandchild robots for the elderly. Other nations need to take note of opportunities in this booming…
Culture / Music
Synth sense
Danish producer Thomas Troelsen is the mastermind behind some of the last decade’s catchiest pop songs. He puts his success down to his huge collection of vintage synthesisers and not caring about what is supposedly hip.
Design / Interior design
Mode in Japan
Alongside the vast Tokyo International Gift Show – 2,400 exhibitors and counting – has grown a smaller, carefully edited craft and design show called For Stockists. But this bijou event is now the hot ticket, thanks to its…
Affairs / Innovation
Up for adoption
In Germany home-owners can generate power and sell it to the national grid. Genoa runs an inspiring van-share scheme that’s cutting congestion and in Estonia they have adopted a simple fiscal reform that’s kept the economy…
Affairs / Diplomacy
The Nordic Embassies, Berlin
The Nordic nations’ Berlin embassies share one of the world’s most architecturally unique buildings. Monocle learns how careful thinking about architecture and design is helping these nations punch above their weight in the…
Business / Industry
The X-tractor
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…