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Oceania
Canberra celebrates its centenary, New Zealand gets building and Tonga gets broadcasting (in Chinese).
The Junction
With its well-preserved streets and redbrick housing, the Junction is home to small shops and galleries and a new generation of residents.
Building momentum
After a big year for architecture in 2012, 2013 promises even more. Monocle highlights seven significant new projects, from London's Shard to Helsinki's Chapel of Silence, that are set to make headlines.
When in Rome
Once a gritty, working-class neighbourhood, Ostiense still has its warehouses and factories but they’re now being converted into museums and spaces for small, creative businesses.
Future imperfect
Sichuan was one of China’s poorest provinces until investment from Beijing and abroad brought boom times to its capital. Chengdu and its ‘pambassadors’ went on a global sales offensive.
Malasaña (north)
With Madrid promoting financial and social change, the relaxed Bourbon style of the Malasaña neighbourhood is the ideal place to start your ‘Madriz’ property portfolio.
Royal society
This month in our series on independent retail strips we shop for rare Nordic design, good coffee, well-loved books and violins on Thereses gate.
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’.
A closer look at Chengdu
Investment from Beijing and abroad has brought a boom to Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. Monocle visits the city to gauge its progress.
Go with the flow
There’s nothing that irritates architects more than the word ‘cosy’. We believe they should rethink their view, as most of us are looking for intimacy, good lighting and sensible scale.
