Architecture
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Fit for purpose
Relocating its headquarters, London-based fashion label Cos adapted a historic building to suit its business needs.
Stairway to heaven
The co-operative apartment block in Valencia that’s a brutalist triumph, casting a spiritual spell on its devoted residents.
Park life
City dwellers are turning to the pleasures of the natural world as an antidote to urban stress. We uncover the green shoots of renewal in Paris, Munich and Beirut.
Architecture
We help Sydney improve the quality of after-life, meet the Vietnamese designers looking to the past for new solutions and venture into the dapper new showroom of an Italian design giant.
Bathing in glory
Summoned by the sun, students and suits alike flock to the Bains des Pâquis – and the baths’ custodians want to ensure that the water remains inviting all year round.
Africa/Middle East
Morocco injects funds into its cities’ medinas, Beirut gets some much-needed public space and Kigali’s transformation into a university town.
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.
