This New York guide is for anyone wanting to grasp the city’s fast-evolving food scene, discover fresh design ateliers, go for a run or buy some less-exposed art.
New York has been photographed and filmed a million times. It’s depicted as a place of constant hustle and no-nonsense residents; of endless commerce and impossibly tall buildings. The purpose of this travel guide is to cut…
Creative director Luca Ballarini starts every day at the Circolo Canottieri Caprera, an urban rowing club in Turin. It’s a daily discipline that offers a fresh perspective on the city – and on life.
The New York Auto Show doesn’t quite attract the media attention of the season-opener in Detroit, but for consumers it’s by far the bigger event. Monocle looks at the role of the regional auto show in car manufacturer’s…
Our first Monocle Kiosk at Zurich’s Jelmoli department store is open for business, the latest of our spaces designed to elevate the media experience for print enthusiasts. Our Kiosk offers a fine collection of books and…
In collaboration with Visit Antwerp we hop on a bike and take a tour of this understated gem. From fashion to food, a quiet renaissance is taking place in this forward-thinking Belgian city.
With the success of Pixar came an avalanche of computer-generated animation but not all animators are following the hi-tech pack. Monocle Films travels to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and southern England in search…
Post September 11 every embassy was built as a bunker ready to repel all comers. But now, from Kathmandu to Harare, architects are reinventing the mission as a national calling card. Robert Bound reports.
Japan’s reputation as a rapidly ageing nation is well deserved: the government said that in September the number of centenarians in the country reached more than 65,000, a record high. Five decades ago there were just 150…
Napoleon was exiled there, Charles Darwin stopped off briefly on HMS Beagle and the nearest mainland is 2,000km away. But St Helena, one of Britain’s most remote outposts in the South Atlantic, may at last be looking at a…
The terms “cutting-edge” and “musical theatre” don’t often appear in the same sentence. However, New York’s Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, which kicks off its fourth edition this week, has been impressively shaking…
Sundance Film Festival promotes diversity across the field – and this extends to new technologies. The 2016 edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of New Frontier, an exhibition that blurs the lines between art and movies…
A fresh generation is falling in love with Mokotow’s modernist architecture and community spirit, giving it a visible sense of vibrancy in the process.
Despite its many kilometres of glorious coastline, the UAE’s beaches are becoming a more sophisticated draw and the battle for this prime waterfront is warming up.