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Latest Episodes
Sir Terry Farrell on the role of the architect
Part two of our special on the Farrell Review: Sir Terry Farrell discusses the changing role of the architect with Aled John, we also report from Maison & Objet in Paris and our Canada team explores Toronto Design Week.
Public and private change with Sir Terry Farrell
Architect Sir Terry Farrell sits down with Aled John to discuss the prospects for public and private change in the UK, and it’s trade-fair season – this week we report from Bread & Butter in Berlin, Home in London and the IMM furniture fair in Köln.
British culture minister Ed Vaizey on architecture
A chat with UK minister for culture, Ed Vaizey, about the Farrell Review into architecture and the built environment and we don our best blazers, bowties and brogues to report from Pitti Uomo – the leading menswear event in Florence.
Good design and natural disaster
A look at the new crop of designers reinvigorating the Turkish fashion scene, we learn how good design helps cities during natural disasters and as Cape Town celebrates being 2014 World Design Capital we head to Taipei to discuss how that city will next be taking up the crown.
2013 highlights
Tom Morris dives into the archives to unearth the best design stories of 2013 and, of course, a whistle-stop tour of design festivals around the world.
Christmas-inspired design
We profile the designers creating that Yuletide feeling through their work, including a Christmas-card letterpress in New York, the street displays of the Big Apple’s retailers and an artisan market in Vienna for a gift or two.
Creations from Cartier
Just in time for Christmas we get sparkly at a new exhibition of Cartier’s best ever creations in Paris, explore the mystery of Turkey’s lost Expo pavilion of 1958 and find out what effect the built environment can have on our health and wellbeing.
Round-up from Design Miami
We report from Design Miami and design journalist Dan Rubinstein discusses the event’s successes and failures. We also hear from the Monocle art desk ahead of the release of our winter publication, Alpino and question the enduring legacy of concrete.
Calligraphy with Rajiv Surendra
We turn on the neon in Seoul and drop in on an expo dedicated to signage, we also meet an industry leader in calligraphy, Rajiv Surendra and visit a landmark of hi-tech architecture (from the 1970s) in the UK.
25 years after Danube Island
Elna Nykanen Andersson reports from the Swedish Association of Architects’ annual gala about how the city is bracing itself as its population rapidly increases and we decamp to Austria 25 years after the pioneering creation of the Danube Island in its capital, Vienna. Plus Charles Phu, founder of design practice…
