Design

The Monocle Design Awards 2024

The latest edition of the Monocle Design Awards is here to celebrate the year’s most inspiring and ingenious products, models and structures as they set the standard across private and public spaces.

Travel and restaurants

Balat: A boisterous district with an undiscovered vibe

Take a stroll through its lanes perched on the Golden Horn for tea and a symphony of colour and contradiction.

Affairs

How Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are laying down tracks for the future with the BTK railway

By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.

Architecture

Plunge into history at Istanbul’s Zeyrek Cinili Hamam

Visit a 16th-century hammam that has been sensitively revived for the modern age.