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Ten life lessons from finding the fun in fashion to footing a clean bill of health
Ah, Saturday morning. Looks like we made it – and in some style. As you read this, the 2026 edition of the Monocle Quality of Life Conference is in its final stages, wrapping up…
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‘Buildings affect our health’: Thomas Heatherwick on how dull architecture is just as harmful as fast food
The world-renowned English designer behind Azabudai Hills and Olympia is on a mission to make buildings that better serve our wellbeing.
The new space race: How satellite internet is changing the face of the Ukraine-Russia war
Russia has launched its own fleet of Rassvet satellites, which could challenge Ukraine’s use of Starlink for combat.
Diplomatic Design 101: The UN’s newest visitor centre is a study in architectural monotony
If minimalism has become the visual language of institutional reassurance, then the Portail des Nations speaks it fluently.
Live to work or work to live? New York’s hustle culture is a world away from Milan’s slower pace
This year I spent part of my summer in New York. It’s a place that’s close to my heart: I lived and worked here for six years as Monocle’s US editor, watching the country…
The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ is dead – but divisions live on in the Balkans
Serbia’s former president Boris Tadić got it right. Ratko Mladić was a “stain” – and his death in custody in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against…
How the reconstruction of Lisbon’s Baixa district became a model for modern urban planning
Lisbon’s Baixa neighbourhood, ravaged by natural disasters in the 18th century, is a design lesson in reconstruction that breathes harmony and order.
What are you doing next weekend? There’s still time to hop on a plane and join us in Lisbon
The forecast says 29C and not a cloud in the sky. Neither perfect weather nor the promise of a glass of wine sat under the shade of a jacaranda should really determine whether you…
By downsizing its premises, is Bangkok’s Dutch embassy signalling its diminished ambitions?
The Dutch embassy in Bangkok, which once stood proud in its historic spot on Wireless Road, is proving that buildings matter with its relocation to a new, much less grand office block.
Should we fear the Bolt-beating robots? For now, not really…
At the World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, competitors look scared stiff.
How Prince Rupert became central to Canada dodging a trade-war bullet
US tariffs have forced Canada to rapidly seek new markets in Asia. And in British Columbia, the speed and scale of this pivot is most evident in its ports and its railroads.
