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…
Live from Milan: our specials from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair continue as we meet Petter Neby of Punkt, we also sit down with the minds behind Bokja Design, and hear from civil engineer and MIT professor Carlo…
Monocle's third annual transport survey is here with a collection of the design, engineering and infrastructure solutions that are shaping the skies, roads and rails near you. Our editors have taken a tour of the transport…
Everyone loves an urban village but few cities know quite how to get the mix of retail, services and residents right. Monocle has taken inspiration from its favourite neighbourhoods to engineer the perfect precinct.
Last year we engineered the perfect neighbourhood and received praise from the World Health Organisation for putting small business at the core of our high street. This year, we’ve come up with a better borough.
Kajima, one of Japan’s largest engineering firms, built the country’s first concrete dam and nuclear reactor. Now it’s at the forefront again, this time in the field of urban biodiversity. We meet the man who sees the…
Thanks to a strong leader, oil discoveries, new direct flights to Europe and a prime-time drama set in St John’s, it’s boom time for this Canadian province, leading everyone from Norwegian engineers to New York art direc…
Set up nearly four years ago by three engineering graduates, Aptomar is one of the many innovative young start-ups thriving in Trondheim, the tech capital of Norway. The firm’s latest maritime navigation equipment is not…
In a bid to lure fickle advertisers and demanding audiences, TV news has become increasingly bland and banal. And so too have the stations' studios. Everything looks so cheap and dull. That's why we've been playing fantasy…
Wednesday 18 July
This week a struggling corporation poached a top executive from a rival company to take over as its CEO. The new boss has a proven record of delivering excellence, innovation, and crucially – value for shareholders.
Tuesday 24 August
In New Delhi, the humble public toilet goes by any number of names: wall, footpath, tree, abandoned car, occupied car.
Sunday 15 August
China is famously hungry for resources and knowledge of all kinds – but military high technology whets the country’s billion-man appetite more than anything else.
Tuesday 26 July
Last week, American Airlines placed the largest single aircraft order in history.
Sunday 29 August
Starved of modern equipment, and with a small ageing fleet barely capable of defending the country’s huge airspace, Indonesia’s decision to buy 10 new Sukhoi fighter jets – the last three of which are due to touch down from…
Thursday 12 August
Cuba might be a land of ration books and power cuts, but last weekend it hosted an electronic music festival, complete with three stages and even an approximation of a cinema tent.
Monday 14 June
Football, as a spectacle, is uniquely dependent on its fans.
Thursday 14 June
Yesterday, on the way to Basel, through the airports and in that Swiss town hosting its eponymous art fair, were signs about Great Britain.
Thursday 8 October
As fashion week closes in Paris this week, a different kind of model is still parading around on Italy’s Ligurian coast.
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