Thursday 7 March
The fat cats of real estate will descend on Cannes next week for MIPIM, their annual hobnobbing hoedown. Monocle will be there too – busy wondering where all the artists and architects have got to.
Monday 14 December
Amid salacious headlines, a plummeting stock market and plunging property prices, Dubai seems well and truly stymied.
Tuesday 9 October
Last week, it was announced that before leaving office next year New York’s Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, would be putting a final architectural stamp on the city he has governed since 2002
As capital of the vast, sparse Australian Northern Territory, Darwin has been given plenty of room to emerge as a dynamic port town. This gateway to Asia is excited about its future – be it in property, pearls, or crocod…
Tuesday 11 September
There’s a hot word in the debate about the future of our cities: density.
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
We try on Welsh denim for size, meet the people behind Mixcloud, and learn of the New York lawyer now developing property in Panama.
Nato, the EU, the Chinese, the US, property developers and private jet owners looking to refuel: it seems suddenly everyone wants to be Cape Verde’s friend. That’s because despite being resource-poor, the islands have one…
Identikit suburban projects and architects without imagination have sullied the reputation of property development but Monocle has tracked down five firms putting passion, innovation and social conscience back into the…
Tokyo is one of the world’s most competitive commercial property markets but the fierce competition means that projects are finished on time and it is considered vital to get every detail right. The latest offering is…
Thursday 16 December
Well, they seemed like good ideas at the time.
Monday 4 March
Hong Kong's famous skyline will always impress architecturally but look below the towers to find the interesting stuff.
Monday 2 August
Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood has built up a reputation for being the city’s cultural hotspot.
Tuesday 14 August
It’s an architectural feat to squeeze in seven million people on just over 1,000 sq km. Hong Kong has managed to do just that and the frenzy to keep building, adding, extending, excavating and reclaiming goes on. Hong Kong…
Monday 1 October
There is something distinctly pleasing about radiated heat that trumps ambient heat every time.
Friday 15 October
Like the rest of New York City, Harlem was hit hard by the economic downturn of the past two years.
Tuesday 22 March
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is the exclamation point to decades of rejuvenation and billions of pounds in private and public investment in London’s decaying King’s Cross neighbourhood.
Wednesday 5 September
Spending the evening strolling around the Baixa district of Lisbon, watching the bars and restaurants fill up as the sun begins to set across the Tagus river, it can be easy to imagine that Portugal’s financial crisis…
Tuesday 7 September
Imelda Marcos, the former Philippine first lady and the stuff of shoemakers’ dreams, has a new vocation.
Sunday 5 December
The Argentinean province of Formosa is firmly off the tourist radar.
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