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What’s in store?
Hopefully better graphics and windows in our department stores. To help, here are a few design cues for shaping smart packaging, signage and service to keep shoppers coming back time after time.
Building momentum
From homelessness to hurricanes, the issues that call for homes that can be thrown up swiftly and securely are diverse. It also helps if they can profit their surroundings, both financially and aesthetically.
Piece together
Amid the crises that Lebanon has faced over the past few years, new design galleries and studios have emerged across the capital and secured its status as a chief design centre in the Middle…
New direction
It hasn’t got the beguiling reputation of its coastal cousins but Australia’s capital has a lot more going for it then you might think.
Circus animals
Biennials are a staple of the cultural calendar and a springboard for artists’ careers. But have we reached peak biennial? It might be time to call it a night.
Baťa: if the shoe fits
The Czech town of Zlín was transformed by a visionary shoemaker who wanted to house his workers in a garden city. We put our best foot forward to explore his functionalist masterpiece.
Masters of glass
The small Venetian island of Murano has a grand glass-blowing reputation. In the glow of the furnaces, Monocle Films witnesses a new generation of designers at work.
Leipzig’s artist studios
Dubbed the new Berlin, Leipzig is home to an increasing number of galleries and project spaces – but the city still has lots of space for inexpensive artists’ ateliers.
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’…
