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‘Never At Home’ : We meet the team behind the art initiative that transforms vacant sites for temporary artistic use. Among these is the Funkhaus, a former radio building of Austria’s national broadcaster, ORF. Alexei Korolyov reports.

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★	9 Jan 2025 8 min	‘Never At Home’ We meet the team behind the art initiative that transforms vacant sites for temporary artistic use. Among these is the Funkhaus, a former radio building of Austria’s national broadcaster, ORF. Alexei Korolyov reports.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
691	7 Jan 2025 30 min	Film special We take a look at some silver-screen releases that take a cinematic view on the built environment. Then we go on a global green architecture tour and take a look at New Zealand’s mid-century brutalism.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
690	31 Dec 2024 28 min	A fresh start New ideas, bright predictions and the trends that will shape the year to come – we preview some of the design stories found in Monocle’s latest edition of ‘The Forecast’.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
689	24 Dec 2024 30 min	The best of 2024 The team shares this year’s highlights. Expect conversations with designers Maria Bruun and Farah Marafie, and architectural historian, Iain Borden. Also, we hear from the team behind the ‘Dwellings’ exhibition of birdhouses.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	19 Dec 2024 3 min	Highlights from the year Monocle’s design editor, Nic Monisse, reflects on some of the conversations shared with creatives this year as 2024 comes to a close.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
688	17 Dec 2024 28 min	Christmas special In this festive episode recorded at Monocle’s annual Christmas Market, we discuss the art of gift wrapping with author and furoshiki expert Tomoko Kakita. Plus, designer Nika Zupanc on her collaboration with Italian brand Alessi, which incorporates Christmas iconography. Finally, we reflect on the joys of meaningful gift-giving at London’s SoShiro Gallery.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	12 Dec 2024 6 min	Contemporary architecture in Chiang Mai Tomás Pinheiro considers how contemporary practitioners in Thailand’s second city, Chiang Mai, work with local materials and traditional construction methods.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
687	10 Dec 2024 30 min	Dafi Kühne, timelessness in design and Fernando Mendes Swiss graphic designer Dafi Kühne explains why legibility is relative and we meet the president of the Instituto Sergio Rodrigues. Also, the architect Jeanne Autran-Edorh reflects on timelessness in architecture.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	5 Dec 2024 4 min	Home comforts Monocle’s design editor, Nic Monisse, reflects on how architecture is key to a strong sense of home.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
686	3 Dec 2024 30 min	Soane Medal winner Hanif Kara, plus Rive Roshan This year’s Soane Medal winner, Hanif Kara, joins us at Midori House. Plus, a studio visit to the Dutch artistic practice, Rive Roshan.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	28 Nov 2024 6 min	Family values Giulia Molteni, part of the third generation of the Molteni family, discusses the importance of a shared vision when continuing the international legacy of the family-owned furniture business.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
685	26 Nov 2024 28 min	An architecture special We visit a new Asif Khan-designed boardwalk in London and discuss kiosks found across Central and Eastern Europe. Plus, we preview Monocle magazine’s new special edition, ‘Monocle: The Entrepreneurs’, out now.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	21 Nov 2024 8 min	‘Rooted’ The first solo exhibition at London’s Gallery Fumi, from James Plumb. The British design duo, Hannah Plumb and James Russell discuss their development process for the sculptural lighting pieces featured.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
684	19 Nov 2024 29 min	Sydney special We hear interviews from Monocle Radio’s pop-up at the UBS Australasia Conference 2024. We check-in with leading antipodean architects and interior designers on residential, hospitality and school design. Plus, how architects can work with indigenous cultures.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	14 Nov 2024 6 min	Miriam Hillawi Abraham The Ethiopian designer and architectural researcher discusses the role of coral in her recent installation, “Material Witnesses and Narrating Lifeforms”. The project is inspired by the coral used as a construction material on the coast of East Africa and in the Gulf.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Design / Podcast

Monocle on Design

Latest episode

Latest episodes

‘Never At Home’

Film special

A fresh start

The best of 2024

Highlights from the year

Christmas special

Contemporary architecture in Chiang Mai

Dafi Kühne, timelessness in design and Fernando Mendes

Home comforts

Soane Medal winner Hanif Kara, plus Rive Roshan

Family values

An architecture special

‘Rooted’

Sydney special

Miriam Hillawi Abraham