Architecture
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Pleasure island
The Princes Islands are strewn with summer homes but none recall Turkey’s mid-century moment like this 1950s retreat, with its clean lines and echo of occasional cocktail parties.
Salone del Mobile
Each April, designers and buyers descend on Milan for the world’s premier furniture fair. With 2,000 exhibitors at the fairgrounds and in showrooms across the city, here are Monocle's standout picks.
Shore thing
London is home to the UN’s International Maritime Organization headquarters. Along the Thames, a host of maritime architecture is revealed, from modern HQs to historic seafarers' churches. Monocle explores these shipshape buildings.
Healthy architecture
How can architects, designers, retailers and city planners embrace a new vernacular that delivers places that leave us feeling better about our lives? Our fourth Quality of Life Conference film explores the notion.
The secret to building affordable homes
As part of our 'Secret to...' series we visit the architecture practice of Andreas Martin-Löf, which is reinventing residential housing in Stockholm.
School of life
The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris is an academic village of ideas on a global scale. Monocle attends campus to see what happens when countries come together in the classroom.
Return to splendour
Chicago’s venerable architectural history has been in danger of weighing heavy on the city’s current crop of architects but now new buildings – and the regeneration of existing ones – are strengthening social foundations.
Property: three nations to invest in
As foreign investment and repatriation abound, the capital cities of the Philippines, Mexico and Iran are enjoying a second life.
Family building
In 1943, two architects built a radical apartment block in Buenos Aires to redefine communal living. Decades later, the modernist marvel is still the glue that holds its inhabitants together.
All grown up: Maylands
Once fallow farmland, Maylands lay dormant for decades before springing forth as fertile land for a budding café and culture scene – and the odd bit of flirting.
