Architecture
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Bach life
Tucked inside woodland and backing onto a beach, this residence in New Zealand’s North Island is the most ambitious project to date from local practice Herbst Architects, using wood to blend into scenery.
Design/Architecture
Social housing in Paris, smart wrapping paper from Berlin, the perfect pairing of a new chair and a classic lamp, and a confession from our design editor on his secret love of tinsel.
2012 forecast: urbanism
What'll happen to our cities in the coming year. Japan wil have more trees, Mumbai will have more high-rises and Portugal will get its first "smart city".
Europe
Greece is grumpy with Macedonia (again), Moscow's mad with illegal taxi drivers, and Poles are pleased about new Warsaw skyscraper.
Design/Architecture
A reworked Chinese trishaw and a Russian "sleep box" are some of the new products on the radar this month.
Batumi boom
Georgia’s second city, Batumi, is in the midst of a frantic transformation. Intent on branding itself as a European-style cultural hotspot, it also aims to become a Caucasian Las Vegas.
Life as art
Renowned textile artist Kay Sekimachi has lived in her Berkeley home for over 50 years. Indoors it’s a warm celebration of furniture and fabrics in which the artist's life very much imitates her art.
Asia
We report on an urban farming project at Osaka train station, the first verticle farm in Singapore and the sad fate of Cambodia's colonial and "new Khmer" buildings.
Paradise in the city
You'll find 'almost perfect' places to live from Munich to Melbourne. At Monocle, we’ve created the ideal mansion block, with nothing omitted. Now, who’s going to build it?
