Architecture
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Venice: finding Freespace
Monocle editor Andrew Tuck navigates the Arsenale to find out how architects have responded to the curatorial theme of this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Sky walkers
New York’s lauded High Line is inspiring cities worldwide to get their own elevated-pathway projects off the ground. Enjoy the view.
Space exploration
The labyrinthine San Jerónimo home of Ernesto Gómez Gallardo Argüelles is a study in Mexican modernism – and a treasure trove of the polymath’s many designs.
Architecture
From a Swiss school putting good architecture on its curriculum to a fix for a Warsaw eyesore.
Clean slate
What does it take to breathe life into a neglected district in a long-lasting and meaningful way? We look in on an area in Amsterdam that is doing it right.
House for the people
A monument to Brazilian modernism, this former department store has been transformed into a flexible community building that is revitalising São Paulo.
California dreamin’
The 1960s was a golden era for West Coast architecture. Ed Killingsworth was an overlooked hero of the period, a maverick of modest mid-century housing whose work remains a Long Beach treasure.
Breaking new ground
From Europe to Asia and the US, large-scale urban-regeneration projects promise to transform entire city neighbourhoods. We plot the progress of five favourites.
Keeping it in the family
When Sandy Cavill’s parents asked him to renovate their Brisbane home he tackled the project with a respect for the past, the city and nature – and his mum and dad, of course.
