Monday 17 May
When it’s filled with 67,000 fans singing so loud and jumping so hard that you can feel the concrete stands vibrating under your feet, the Morumbi football stadium is a remarkable place.
Wednesday 20 October
What should a city do with a football stadium no one uses, sitting on prime land in the centre of town? Demolish it, you say.
Friday 27 July
In case you’re not among the lucky ones at the Olympic Stadium or sports are just not your thing, here are our recommendations for fun and art this weekend.
We learn about an ice hockey stadium turned into a grocery store, ask how London cabs could be greener, and visit Zürich’s Freitag Tower.
Tuesday 21 September
"A stadium of four million people” was how New Zealand pitched itself in its winning bid to host next year’s rugby world cup.
Sophie Grove visits the UK’s oldest salmon smokery just 100 metres from London’s Olympic stadium, we chat with the co-founders of a Chicago window-cleaning business, and discuss the branding of charities with our friends…
One of the most curious by-products of South Korea's broadband boom has been the creation of an online gaming culture unlike anything seen anywhere in the world. The footage we're presenting here comes from Ongamenet, a…
All over Africa, Chinese labourers are hard at work building railways, roads and national stadiums. In return, the continent’s developing countries are selling their oil and iron ore to the Chinese. The figures are stagg…
Tuesday 13 December
It’s no secret that Brazil is a football-obsessed nation.
Saturday 1 May
Unlike its American counterpart, professional Canadian football has never managed to become a truly coast-to-coast sport.
Tuesday 29 January
Everybody loves a sporting giant-slayer but when it comes to team branding, the game is just as hard-fought.
As national coaches from Brazil to South Korea plot World Cup tactics, so too do the world’s journalists. Monocle visits Durban and Johannesburg to see how 18,000-plus writers, pundits and photographers will be accommodated…
Tuesday 31 August
Brazil’s logo for the 2014 World Cup was supposed to symbolise unity.
Friday 8 February
The prospect of next year's Winter Games in Sochi should be creating nothing but excitement; instead it's attracting criticism for alleged human-rights transgressions. What's happened to the notion of an Olympic spirit?
Monday 24 October
It’s congratulations to the New Zealand rugby team then, a worthy winner of the 2011 Rugby World Cup final in Eden Park, Auckland, this weekend.
South America's love of heavy metal, Brazil's Casa Triângulo art gallery and Al Jazeera launches in the Balkans.
Wednesday 27 March
Cricket. A match can take several days, everyone stops for tea and there's no promise of a winner. What could the attraction possibly be?
The substantial motorcade of the 'humble' Ugandan president, Norway looks to turn Quatar's desert green and a new bridge betwen Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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