Social housing is often regarded as the architectural afterthought of governments tackling home shortages. But four innovative new developments, from London to Tokyo, are showing how good design and collaborative ideas can…
We profile the small architecture and design studios that we’d hire to create great spaces for us: with Tokyo’s Puddle nailing the hospitality sector, Laisné Roussel in Paris for residential buildings and If Architecture…
This month we deck out readers with seaside-inspired trainers, Bulgarian beach bats and a new brew from Barcelona. Plus the German bags worth bragging about and fishing lures to angle for.
This April we shower you with well-made ephemera, including a Canadian gin, Nordic planters and Swiss sundries, plus a handsome set of travel guides and some desirable deskware.
The artists, animators and graphic designers Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas met in 1988. Although both are artists in their own right, they collaborate on almost all their projects. They formed their production company…
For such a secretive fortress of ideas, the Audi Design Center is housed in a surprisingly transparent glass structure where collaboration is encouraged across all five floors. Head of design Marc Lichte gives us an excl…
Once a main attraction of the 1964 to 1965 World’s Fair, the New York State Pavilion currently sits off-limits to the public in Queens. The Philip Johnson-designed structure has been in disuse for decades but a recent…
Briefing: A Danish bag designer goes back to school, a pair of Japanese brothers fall in love with Bolivia, and a Swedish and an American shoe company cosy up for a collaboration.
It's no surprise that small businesses form the backbone of Toronto's economy but can entrepreneurialism be the answer to juvenile delinquency? Non-profit organisation Sketch hopes so. It has tapped architecture firm Per…
A collaborative exhibition between Fabrica and Airbnb at Salone del Mobile will examine hospitality and hearty welcomes. That it will all take place at a magnificent private home made Monocle only too happy to accept an…