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14 Oct 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 430: Holcim Foundation Awards series: Lina Ghotmeh: 

Every week we welcome one of the jury chairs of the Holcim Foundation Awards – the world’s premier competition for sustainable design – to hear their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet and building thriving communities. In episode two we sit down with Lebanese-born architect Lina Ghotmeh, the founding principal of her eponymously named practice.

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7 Oct 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 429: Holcim Foundation Awards series: Jeanne Gang: 

Every week on Monocle Radio we welcome one of the jury chairs of the Holcim Foundation Awards, the world’s premier competition for sustainable design, to hear their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet and building thriving communities. In episode one, we sit down with the US architect and founder of Studio Gang, Jeanne Gang.

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30 Sep 2024
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 428: Havis Amanda, Helsinki: 

Petri Burtsoff tells the story of Havis Amanda, a beloved fountain and statue in Helsinki, which has recently been restored.

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16 Sep 2024
10 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 426: Michigan Central Station, Detroit: 

Mandy Sinclair explores the story of a disused rail station in the car capital of the US, which has been given a new lease of life by the automobile giant that calls Detroit home.

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9 Sep 2024
4 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 425: Embassy of Russia, Havana: 

Tomos Lewis investigates how Russia’s embassy in Cuba has come to represent renewed ties between the two countries.

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2 Sep 2024
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 424: Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro: 

Liv Kessler explores the story behind a marvel of neofuturistic architecture stretching out across the water in Rio de Janeiro.

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26 Aug 2024
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 423: Rothko Chapel, Houston: 

Gregory Scruggs takes us to a non-denominational chapel that has been a spiritual sanctuary and design lover’s dream for decades.

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19 Aug 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 422: The Vjesnik building, Zagreb: 

Guy De Launey tells us about a largely overlooked piece of Zagreb’s urban environment that was once home to an iconic Yugoslav newspaper.

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12 Aug 2024
3 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 421: Le Carreau du Temple, Paris: 

David Stevens visits a historic part of Paris that has been a celebrated example of a mixed-use space for centuries.

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5 Aug 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 420: Montreal Olympic Stadium: 

Paul Logothetis takes us to the Montreal Olympic Stadium to explore the mixed impression that it has left on residents of the city.

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29 Jul 2024
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 419: La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris: 

Emma Nelson takes us to one of the most intriguing monuments in the French capital, which puts into frame the beauty of Parisian architecture.

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22 Jul 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 418: Johns Family Nature Conservancy Regional Park, Kelowna: 

Mandy Sinclair takes us to a nocturnal preserve not far from the city centre of Kelowna, British Columbia, to find out why protecting the dark sky is so important.

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15 Jul 2024
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 417: Parque Central, Caracas: 

Camille Rodríguez Montilla tells the story of a grand development in Caracas that is emblematic of Venezuela’s decades-long tale of boom and bust.

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8 Jul 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 416: Postos, Rio de Janeiro: 

Tomás Pinheiro looks at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic numbered lifeguard stations and meets the communities surrounding them.

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1 Jul 2024
7 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 415: The Tempodrom, Berlin: 

George Ruskin takes us to a postmodern, circus-tent-like event space that has been entertaining Berliners for decades.

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24 Jun 2024
4 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 414: Former headquarters of Deutsche Bahn AG, Frankfurt: 

Florian Siebeck visits a late-brutalist building that looms over the Frankfurt skyline to assess what’s next for this cultural monument.

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17 Jun 2024
5 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 413: Astana, Kazakhstan: 

Carla Hyenne explores Astana, the recently minted capital of Kazakhstan, to see how the move has affected the city and the country as a whole.

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10 Jun 2024
6 min

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 412: The Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building, Belgrade: 

Guy de Launey looks at what the future holds for the largely dilapidated remains of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building in Serbia’s capital.

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