The Entrepreneurs, episode 35
Egypt’s solar energy industry, a look at how to keep businesses sustainable yet profitable, and we find out about the Latin American hospitality industry.
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The Entrepreneurs, episode 5
We talk about putting personality back into the hospitality business, sample Japan’s craft beers and meet a data analyst who quit to start a bakery.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 April
Changes to military service
In 1990 when I did my German civilian service – working in a hospital – it took 15 months, three months more than the military conscription option
End Point / Hotels
Observation Issue 08
Room for improvement: So many hotels bombard us with unnecessary extras when what we really require from them is to do the simple things well. Isn’t it time they ditched the gimmickry and concentrated on the basics of…
Business / Manufacturing
Up the tubes
Email looked to have made obsolete the process of transporting data by pneumatic tubes, but logistics firm Swisslog saw a potential growth market: healthcare. Now, every new hospital has a network to carry drugs and samples…
Design / Urbanism
Cobble it up
Along with clean hospitals and punctual buses, our cities should have a cosy feel to them. Let’s hear it for warm street lighting, pristine parks and cobbled back alleys.
Affairs / Society
Ready for this?
Israel’s violent history means that its hospitals have much to teach other countries about how to deal with major bloodshed on their streets. Rambam Medical Center in Haifa is offering medics pioneering training in handling…
Business / Industry
Light Fantastic
The Austrian lighting company BLL leads the industry with its progressive thinking, installing life-enhancing systems at hospitals, airports and the new Cairo Museum. Soon it will focus its light-direction technologies on…
Business / Health
Health visitors
Affluent Arabs used to head to hospitals in the US when they needed treatment. But now, post-Iraq, they are increasingly choosing Germany’s private clinics. With the average foreign patient spending an estimated €80,000 a…
Business / Aviation
A head for flights
Turkey’s aviation market is growing faster than China’s, and Turkish Airlines is helping turn Istanbul into a hub that could soon rival Dubai. CEO Temel Kotil explains how traditional Turkish hospitality has been key to his…
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…
Business / Neighbourhood Business
Madrid Remake
It's not all bad news on the streets of Madrid. The economic crisis is stirring a new generation of young, creative entrepreneurs into action - and the city is undergoing a refreshing and very visible transformation as a…
Edits / Politics
Observation
February is the perfect time to start new projects – how about that novel you’ve always meant to write? Actually, why think so small? How about a manifesto for shaking up a small nation, from overhauling the transport…
Edits / Travel
Travel Top Fifty 2011
Monocle's annual Travel Top 50 introduces you to the world's best hoteliers and leading airlines, airports, operators and chefs. The awards are based on the hundreds of journeys made by the Monocle team over the past twelve…
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Sunday 17 July
The value of design in Britain
Architects, perhaps more than any other design professionals in Britain, have had a rough ride lately.
Edits / Retail
Monocolumn
Sunday 5 September
Objets of desire
Fauchon snack shops alongside a Mariage Frères restaurant kitted out with Inga Sempé table lamps and waiters in white bow-tie uniforms – this isn’t the food offering of an upmarket retail emporium but the newly inaugurated…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 15 October
Hotel break in Harlem
Like the rest of New York City, Harlem was hit hard by the economic downturn of the past two years.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Sunday 31 January
Haiti according to Médecins Sans Frontières
Haiti has raised a lot of questions about how the world helps when disaster strikes.
Affairs / Health
Monocolumn
Thursday 26 January
Somalia’s conflicts show no sign of resolution
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal.