Catalonia could take one more step towards independence on Sunday when it votes for a new regional parliament. The election has seen the two main pro-independence parties – one on the left, the other to the right – join…
Along with the country’s linguists, representatives of Arctic Inuit communities in Canada’s far north met in Ottawa on Friday to start work on standardising a common alphabet for the 60,000 indigenous people spread across…
Tasmania is a quiet force on the design scene but government backing, a decent museum and a school saved from closure are helping to put it on the world map and attract clients from abroad. We visit the studios of five…
Kashgar may look like just another chinese boomtown but the city is riven with ethnic tensions. monocle visits a frontier where tradition is clashing with change.
There’s often a temptation to pull down and rebuild but over the following pages we look at projects determined to make do and mend, starting with a modernist marvel in Spain.
In Monocle’s dream residential building, we would include the features and proportions of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments, with a few additions of our own. Attention developers: ven…
When a husband-and-wife team decided to transform their apartment behind Madrid’s Paseo de Prado into a space in which they could live and work, little did they know that the project would provide so much comfort.
In 1943 two Argentinian architects built a radical apartment block in Buenos Aires that would redefine the communal living space. Decades later the modernist marvel is still the glue that holds its inhabitants together.
Yes, they can look pretty, but Diana Balmori’s landscaping projects can also change cities, make people happier and healthier and battle climate change. A pioneer of the green roofs movement, she helped build New York’s…
Visit Munich or Melbourne, Seattle or Singapore and you’ll come across ‘almost perfect’ places to live. However, at Monocle we’ve created the ideal mansion block, with nothing omitted in its design. Now, who’s going to…
Almost 20 per cent of Sweden’s population live in greater Stockholm, making the pressure for housing intense. Many of the city’s 180,000 apartments are co-ops. So, when you find a great flat, you are reluctant to leave it…
