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Architecture

Making by hand

Aarhus School of Architecture’s new home is encouraging students to step away from the screen – and it’s making them happier.

  • Issue #154
  • 11 min read
Students working at wooden desks in bright concrete studio space with presentation board and stacked chairs
Architecture

Blue-sky thinking

A compact modernist home in Portugal gets a new lease of life thanks to a smart renovation that honours its architectural heritage and coastal surroundings.

  • Issue #154
  • 5 min read
Modernist house with blue wooden siding, white trim, brick chimney, and geometric railings under clear sky
Design

The Monocle Design Awards 2022

From the smartest greenhouses to the prettiest glassware, the Monocle Design Awards celebrate the most pleasing projects that bring our homes and cities to life.

  • Issue #153
  • 45 min read
Anne Street Garden Villas by AOG Architects showing colorful social housing development with individual identities for each dwelling
Hospitality

Game changer

Nintendo’s former headquarters have reopened as a boutique hotel designed by Tadao Ando. The architect has retained many original elements, with nods to the company’s origins as a producer of playing cards.

  • Issue #153
  • 5 min read
Art deco facade of Marufukuro hotel in Kyoto showing restored 1930s architecture with green awnings
Design

Setting the scene

In news bulletins, the background matters. We meet the Vienna-based designers whose television studios are the stars of the show.

  • Issue #152
  • 10 min read
Television news anchor in red suit standing in modern studio with curved LED screens and professional lighting
Architecture

Banking on it

As Pictet opens its new Zürich office, we meet the team behind the historic building’s overhaul.

  • Issue #152
  • 9 min read
Banking on it
Urbanism

Urbanism

Disney-branded towns and a posthumous Mies van der Rohe construction.

  • Issue #152
  • 4 min read
Modern glass and steel building with floor-to-ceiling windows illuminated at dusk surrounded by green lawn
Design

Nation buildings

Architects are using their craft to give Ghana an optimistic narrative fit for the 21st century. Can they ‘ignite the ambition of a country’?

  • Issue #151
  • 11 min read
Black Star Square in Accra with Independence Arch, monument, and Ghanaian flags during golden hour
Design

Remaking a masterpiece

A modernist home in subtropical São Paulo has been carefully restored by one of the city’s best architects. We take an exclusive tour of this Brazilian beauty.

  • Issue #151
  • 7 min read
Remaking a masterpiece
Architecture

Born again

A new luxury hotel in a former maternity hospital has balanced respect for a beloved, historical building with a global vision in a decade-long transformation.

  • Issue #151
  • 5 min read
Elegant hotel lounge with floral upholstered chairs, wicker furniture, arched ceiling and warm golden lighting

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