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    4 April 2017

    Episode 286

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    We speak to the photographer behind a book documenting the modernist architecture of Palm Springs under the light of the full moon. We also tour the new home of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and our Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson gives us her Japanese design picks.

    4 April 2017

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    Midnight Modern: Palm Springs under the full moon

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    Over the course of three years Tom Blachford photographed the mid-century modernist architecture of California’s Palm Springs under the light of five full moons.

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    One Spadina – a new home for architecture education in Toronto

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    The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design will soon have a new home at One Spadina, the historic location of one of the university’s first buildings. Monocle’s Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis takes a tour.

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    Fiona Wilson: Japan design picks

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    From catering utensils to redevelopment architecture, Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson tells us what design delights have caught her eye in Japan.

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