Design / Architecture
Green rooms
Sauerbruch Hutton was one of the first architecture firms to promote the value of sustainable building. Now it’s in demand across Europe, expanding into furniture and pushing developers to think bigger.
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Business / Technology
Green light
The upside to rising fuel prices and a depressed property market is more willingness to embrace Kandiyohi Development Partners’ mantra: find a better way. Plus, overleaf, the view from New York
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Saturday 6 November
Europe’s greenest towns
Imagine a city where everyone lives next to a park, where people cycle to work on safe bike routes or hop on to convenient trams if it’s raining, where the air is clean and the traffic noise is, if not absent, at least…
Edits / Recipes
Green machine
Most restaurants boast of using only fresh ingredients but they don’t come much fresher than at De Kas.
Edits / Aviation
Green wings
Widerøe is green in both livery and ethos, thanks to its successful carbon offset scheme – just one reason why its customers seem to love the carrier so much.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 February
It’s back to the 80s with massive state sell-off
After spending much of his first term taking a cautious approach, New Zealand prime minister John Key has finally raised a very unpopular idea indeed.
Business / Environment
From red to green
It builds one new coal power plant every week, and is the largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. But as world leaders gather for Copenhagen’s climate change conference, China is also the nation that could save…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 November
How Auckland just got interesting
Auckland used to be one of the world’s least ambitious cities.
Business / Travel
Everyone on board
Air New Zealand’s laid-back chief executive isn’t bothered about business speak and motivational babble. His is a hands-on, direct approach. And that means being able to communicate with everyone from the hallowed customer…
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 October
The Gulf needs to go green
It’s the bits in between that look so wrong. Sure the towers tower and the palaces glint but the gaps in between the buildings, that’s where it often falls down, where the urban vision is suddenly rather hazy.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 15 August
Cold front leaves locals grappling with graupel
Aucklanders learnt a new word yesterday: “graupel”. Halfway between snow and sleet, it forms when very cold droplets of water hit snowflakes to form a “rime”.
Edits / Retail
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Part Five
For this week’s briefings, Monocle heads to Beirut and Berlin with a stop in Detroit. A film from the Monocle television series on Bloomberg.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 September
New Zealand faces up to its fault lines
Within hours of Saturday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Canterbury, streets were flooded by broken water mains and sewage pipes.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 30 August
The council merger
This week, the Auckland Transition Authority announced nominations for the new Auckland Council elections.
Edits / Travel
New Oyster Cult
When the owners of The Oyster Inn moved to New Zealand they never intended to open a restaurant, let alone a hotel. Two years on, they are the proprietors of a local institution and a winning brand.
Edits / Food & Drink
Post Taste
Located in a former post office, Kokako was set up by the owner of a coffee company, who believes in being close to his customers.
Business / Innovation
Dream machines
From robotic nurses to submersible aircraft, the stuff of science fiction is close to becoming a reality. Monocle tracks down five innovative high-tech firms that are on the brink of achieving great things in 2009.
Design / Urbanism
Copenhagen: design city
There are many reasons why Copenhagen trumped the other cities in our quality of life survey. One of them is its undeniably seamless urban planning, paving the way for the mobility, and ultimately, the happiness of its…
Business / Business Hubs
Business briefing
The coffee shop favoured by US troops, Dubai's building bottleneck, and mobile firms reveal their new organic deli.