Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Monday 1 October
New builds don’t stay new for long
There is something distinctly pleasing about radiated heat that trumps ambient heat every time.
- 93 results for redevelopment
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
How China just got bigger and staying in touch with the dead in Japan.
Business / Industry
Desert Dream
Once a provincial backwater, the Jordanian port town of Aqaba is in the midst of a vast regeneration programme that will reposition it as the ‘gateway to the Levant’.
Affairs / Transport
Europe Briefing
High-speed rail lines are in the pipeline for both the UK and Turkey, while a breath of fresh air is promised in the planned landscaped gardens of the redeveloped Le Forum des Halles, Paris.
Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 30 April
City makeover for the Expo
Shanghai has gone green in the lead up to the opening of the World Expo today.
Business / Industry
Oblast resort
It’s an isolated chip off the old Russian bloc that’s surrounded by wealthier EU nations. Its future is anyone’s guess – military outpost or beach resort? But with a dynamic leader and wise investment, Kaliningrad could…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 18 September
Maputo’s concrete legacy
In Mozambique, the colonial era feels awfully close. Here, imperial relics are modern. Some, like the hotel I stayed in during my visit for Monocle’s Lusophone issue, were built in the early 1970s.
Affairs / Urbanism
Beirut Reconstruction
Monocle explores how Beirut's redevelopment has become a threat to the city's historic streets and neighbourhoods.
Midori House, episode 89
The challenges faced by the Costa Cruises brand, why the US fell behind in the space race, and Hugo Macdonald explains the redevelopment of Helsinki.
Affairs / Urbanism
Taiwan’s turning tide
Under the leadership of a progressive mayor, Kaohsiung in the south of Taiwan is no longer the neglected sibling of the capital Taipei. With its harbour being redeveloped and refreshed infrastructure within the city, Mon…
Edits / Travel
Expo 55: Valparaiso
After spending the late 20th century becalmed in quiet isolation, Chile’s second city is opening up to the rest of the world. But will World Heritage status, tourism and redevelopment corrupt the port’s cheerful bohemian…
Business / Provenance
Prime mover
Mitsubishi built Tokyo’s first office block, in the Marunouchi district, 114 years ago, and the firm is behind the area’s current redevelopment into a major financial centre. Overleaf, we dissect a Marunouchi building site…
The Globalist, episode 394
As Syria’s conflict rages on we discuss why communities are beginning to set up local councils in a bid for normalcy. Plus, we head to Sydney to find out about controversial plans to redevelop its waterfront, and talk…
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Sunday 28 March
Still holding sway after 5,000 years
How do you go about updating a city that’s over 5,000 years old and is estimated to contain one-third of the entire world’s ancient monuments within its walls?
Business / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Thursday 16 December
Seoul’s property dreamers awaken to reality
Well, they seemed like good ideas at the time.
Design / Architecture
Monocolumn
Tuesday 22 March
The real renaissance of King’s Cross
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.
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
Wednesday 3 March
Destruction of the past? That’s nothing new
In London it’s easy to get enraged about an urban planning decision that appears to casually wipe away the city’s past and allow for the construction of some modern monstrosity.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 26 November
Trees are part of the city
With Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Viktor Bout in an Illinois penitentiary, Kim Jong-un busy with a new lady friend and Ugg boots finally on the way out, can you name the world’s biggest public enemy…