Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 23 February
A Kiwi quandary
As citizens of a small nation still emerging from a postcolonial adolescence, New Zealanders are proud of the clutch of symbols recognised as their own.
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Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 July
Rupee’s new symbol status
India might not yet have cracked the G8, but it is joining an equally select financial group: those economies whose currencies have their own symbol.
Design / Architecture
Show of force
The largest city to be created in the past 100 years is Brazil’s capital. That bold, modernist ideal extends to its military departments, shaped in swathes of creative concrete by architectural icon, Oscar Niemeyer.
Affairs / Television
Asia Briefing
The vexed quest to design and new currency symbol of Kazakhstan.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 29 May
New Zealand’s Apartheid shame
There’s no symbol dearer to New Zealand’s vision of itself as a multicultural nation than the All Blacks.
Design / Graphic Design
Monocolumn
Tuesday 18 October
The world’s perkiest traffic light man
The enduring symbols of the former East Germany are not particularly cherishable; the Stasi, brutalist architecture, steroid-riddled athletes.
The Monocle Daily, episode 90
Why Turkey has a new currency symbol, we speak to protestors in Moscow, and discuss why luxury hotels are being built in war zones.
Affairs / Government
Sami side of life
The new Sami parliament building in Finland is a proud symbol of how far the indigenous people of Europe's north have come over the past century, from being a culture struggling for survival to a thriving community.
Edits / Society
Expo 52: Sami slide of life
The new Sami parliament building in Finland is a proud symbol of how far the indigenous people of Europe’s north have come over the past century, from being a culture struggling for survival to a thriving community.
Affairs / Society
Show the world
Our new series, national icons, is about people who rise above politics to become symbols of a country’s strengths. First we meet May Arida who has kept Lebanon’s Baalbek festival alive despite wars and threats. She also…
Edits / Aviation
Fight or flight
The future of Berlin’s Tempelhof airport is up in the air. Due for closure next year, campaigners are mounting one final bid to rescue this hugely symbolic airport that played starring roles in the Second World War and the…
Culture / Arts
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand, one of Germany's most iconic contemporary artists, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Demand's work is inspired by photographs that have become memories, recreated as…
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Wednesday 11 January
Bigger isn’t always better
You know what they say about men who drive big cars. Well the same can be said for cities that build tall buildings.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 28 March
Don't mention the Swedes
A Finnish documentary series has drawn some uncomfortable and controversial conclusions regarding Finland's national identity.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Sunday 8 November
Feeling the fear
Wander Istanbul at night and probably the worst thing that will happen is that you twist your ankle on a wonky pavement.
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 / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 7 April
JetBlue and the power of the rebrand
Long before nations ranging from Britain to New Zealand got into the rebranding business there was I Love New York – the seminal slab serif logo devised by legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser back in 1977.
Affairs / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Tuesday 5 January
On a new high – with a new name
Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper yesterday – with the surprise announcement that the glistening structure had been renamed Burj Khalifa, after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, leader of Abu Dhabi.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 21 March
Why I love Dilma
Like many other Brazilians I thought it wouldn’t be an easy task to follow in the steps of one of the most popular presidents Brazil ever had.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 24 October
One giant leap for Wales in the Rugby World Cup
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.