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Grand tour

22 June 2017

City leaders with a desire to improve quality of life shouldn’t just draw up plans at their desks: they need to see how things work in other towns and cities. The answers are out there. To get you started, we’ve devised…

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Full steam ahead

27 May 2021

The Scandic Grand Central hotel is breathing new life into one of Finland’s most beloved buildings: Helsinki’s main railway station. With stunning design and a keen sense of history, there is no way that this one will hit…

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The Monocle Daily - Friday 16 November

16 November 2018

We get the latest from Mexico, where the highest court has overturned a controversial new law aimed at regulating military troops in the war on drug cartels. Plus: a stalled plan to move persecuted Rohingya refugees back…

Film

Celluloid Skyline

1 June 2007

Monocle visits architect and author James Sanders to discuss his exhibition, Celluloid Skyline, at Grand Central Station, New York. It's the story of how New York City was constructed in the movies, through the imagination…

Monocle Minute

Deeper underground

29 January 2016

Japan is not a country to shy away from grand infrastructure projects, regardless of gloomy talk about rising costs and shrinking demographics. Central Japan Railway Company (known in Japan as JR Tōkai) held a groundbrea…

Radio

The Entrepreneurs - Eureka 99: No18

25 May 2018

Flexible, shared work spaces are in high demand around the world. But what about those looking for a more premium experience? Enter Stockholm’s No18. Launched by Michel Gordin in 2012, No18 now has two location in the…

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Missing links

27 May 2021

As the world gets moving once again, we highlight the grand-scale transit projects that would give cities and nations new momentum.

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Expo 53: Building for the future

19 April 2012

Cannes’ annual MIPIM property market is a chance for countries and cities to show off their grand design visions. And, despite the economic crisis, it remains a fascinating milieu where mayors, speculators and architects…

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Evolving skylines

21 November 2013

From a train station in Vienna, whose design pays homage to the city’s rich musical history, to a futuristic university building in Düsseldorf, Monocle takes a look at the cutting-edge architectural projects that will…

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Direction of Travel

4 January 2024

Our team of well-journeyed reporters offer their thoughts on the route that forward-facing tourism should be taking in 2024, plus some personal perspectives on what makes a tour truly grand, be it on wheels, wings, rails…

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Our heroes

19 November 2009

Welcome to Monocle’s annual round-up of 20 people who we think deserve a bigger stage. We cover diverse professions from shoe designers to politicians because we believe it’s not only the grand scale that matters, but the…

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City slickers

17 June 2007

It’s not necessarily the billion-euro development, star-architect-designed gallery or shiny new ferris wheel that makes locals feel good about their town. Monocle believes that the measure of a city is more about everyday…

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Sunny outlook

17 April 2014

Each spring the great and the good of the property industry decamp to Cannes to rub shoulders with the architects, urbanists and developers shaping the face of our cities. Monocle heads to the French Riviera to report from…

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Monocle travel guide

17 January 2013

With stunning interiors and furnishings by up-and-coming Brazilian designers competing with floor-to-ceiling views of the rainforest, guests staying at Brazil’s Botanique Hotel and Spa may find it takes a while to discover…

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Mittel class

16 February 2012

Hungary has become the bête noir of Europe as fears grow that its government has a rather loose grasp of democracy. It shouldn’t be like this. The country has the talent and heritage to sell Brand Magyar to the world.

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Architecture

13 August 2018

The US firm moving beyond desert modernism, plus an artistic spot in the English countryside and a starkly dramatic Algarve capital.