Architecture
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Signs of the times
Our favourite city design details, from hanging lamps in Copenhagen to neon signs in Warsaw.
2016 Venice Architecture Biennale – National Pavilions
Our second film report from the Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on the national pavilions’ responses to curator Alejandro Aravena’s quest for new points of view on the social, political and cultural issues facing the…
2016 Venice Biennale – Reporting from the Front
In the first of two film reports from the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale we talk to Chilean architect – and this year’s curator – Alejandro Aravena about his chosen theme ‘Reporting from the Front’…
Diplomacy
India’s ambassador in Kabul, Russia’s embassy in Cuba and Japan’s envoy in the Solomon Islands.
Urbanism
Visit Pec – the Kosovan city with cultural muscle – and find out about Portland’s river revamp.
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.
