From an environmentally minded life-sciences campus in San Diego to a 1960s police station in Belgium transformed into a lawyers’ office-cum-community hub, well-considered architecture can help businesses to step up their…
We visit three family-owned furniture businesses that have thrived through the generations – or been revived – to discover how these legacy brands continue to produce unique high-quality pieces without being sidetracked by…
Meet trail-blazing entrepreneurs with an eye for opportunity. From a Moroccan bakery elevating pastry into a luxury gift to a Welsh mill securing its future by becoming an employee-owned enterprise, we discover how thriving…
Whether it’s drafting new letterforms, imbuing craft with diasporic mythology or rendering the intangible in bricks and mortar, these practitioners have truly honed their disciplines – and they’re still learning.
Malta’s pre-eminent architect Richard England isn’t slowing down just yet. The prolific octogenarian writes poetry, draws cityscapes and is currently penning a book based on biblical characters. Over his six-decade career…
Sadly, too many railway companies procure new rolling stock that borrows from commercial-aircraft configurations – crammed seating, little overhead space and overlit carriages. So we’ve decided to roll out our own dream…
Balance is key when it comes to residential yacht design. We step aboard the new Y8 to find out how its living space complements – and contrasts – life above deck.
The latest edition of the Monocle Design Awards is here to celebrate the year’s most inspiring and ingenious products, models and structures – and the people who conceive them – as they set the standard in both form and…
Our pack of far-flung correspondents weigh in with a sampling of weird and wonderful things happening across the world, from a 100-year-old Canadian landscape designer’s achievements
to some mind-beagling treats for
your…
