Architecture
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Legally briefed
Encounters with Italian law are frequently less than elegant, but one northern notary’s offices present a very civil partnership between clean modernity and solemn tradition.
Expo 15: Happy union
Established in the tradition of Denmark’s folk schools, Lo-skolen was designed by Jarl Heger and Karen & Ebbe Clemmensen. The 1960s modernist design remains, with its white-brick buildings and custom-designed furniture.
Thinking cities
Six leading writers, thinkers and academics – including Alain de Botton and Richard Florida – give their view on the state of today’s cities, and their vision of the urban future.
Curated community
Last year we engineered the perfect neighbourhood, receiving praise from the World Health Organisation for putting small business at the core of our high street. This year, we’ve come up with a better borough.
Design principal
The Rhode Island School of Design is buzzing about its new president: commercially aware digital theorist and renowned graphic designer John Maeda, a man as happy at Reebok as at MoMA.
Living large
In Monocle’s dream residential building, we’d include features of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments. Attention developers: veneers and fashionable embellishments are not the way forward.
Copenhagen: design city
Copenhagen topped our quality of life survey for many reasons, not least its seamless urban planning that prioritises mobility and resident happiness. Denmark’s capital is, put simply, a city designed for life.
Architecture/Design
Swedish summer houses, a Portuguese museum and an interview with Philipp Mainzer of e15.
Energinet
Danish Architects Hvidt & Mølgaard have created a state-of-the-art, energy efficient headquarters for Energinet.dk. Challenged with reducing the total energy consumption by 25-30% the architects worked with high performance materials and new technology to…
Best in class
The redesign of Oslo International School by Jarmund/Vigsnæs proves that inspired architecture has a calming effect on pupils. It's a colourful, light-filled alternative to the average uninspiring school interior.
