Zach Dundas
Rooms with a view
We round up the sharpest and most forward-looking architects busy turning heads with their innovative retail designs, lush tropical dwellings and nature-inspired and welcoming commercial spaces.
Retail Survey: Division Street, Portland, Oregon
Division Street in Portland, Oregon has witnessed a model retail renaissance. Monocle Films meets the shopkeepers on this once sleepy stretch, which is now the centre of the city’s budding new retail scene.
Market forces
The Monocle Retail Survey returns, scouring the globe for the best new shops and smartest developers. This year’s review is designed to inspire and intrigue, from Buenos Aires to Seoul and beyond.
Americas
There’s no love lost between journalists and politicians but at least Portland is in a caring, sharing mood.
Oceania
Australia’s governor-general and his military bling – and Fiji spreads its aviation wings.
Urbanism
Visit Pec – the Kosovan city with cultural muscle – and find out about Portland’s river revamp.
Business
A Japanese packaging company re-energising an ancient tradition, an innovative medical clinic in Portland, Oregon, and a Q&A with an F&B entrepreneur from Jakarta.
