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Field days

23 March 2023

For the Dutch couple who run Sterrekopje among the valleys and fields near Stellenbosch in South Africa, operating a hotel that encourages guests to interact with its staff is as natural as the bucolic surroundings.

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Urbanism

23 March 2023

A new design school in South Africa and trainers designed for the London Underground.

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Ground rules

16 February 2023

Famed for its wine and food production, this idyllic New Zealand outpost has quietly become a fertile agritech hub.

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Is the future electric?

16 February 2023

We all know the promise: a green driving future thanks to electric vehicles. But there are some bumps in the road and, beyond compact, wealthy cities, is the world really ready? We hit the road to find out.

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Design

8 December 2022

A Practice for Everyday Life, a clever school extension, the revamped analogue Leica, an interview with Moshe Safdie and architecture as art.

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Sleeping with the artist

29 September 2022

Some hotels might show art on their walls but few have been engineered to put culture at their centre. We visit four properties that prove that adding a touch of hospitality to a gallery – or an exhibition space to lodgings…

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Continental drift

29 September 2022

Leaving your homeland behind to set up a new life in Africa takes fiery determination and nerves of steel. But moving in numbers can offer a host of benefits, as Iranian, Moroccan and French émigrés have discovered. We…

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Business

15 September 2022

Iberia’s new uniforms, the South African brand that converts sea waste into clothing and a chat with Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano.

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Staying power

19 May 2022

Checking in at an intimate bolthole in a Portuguese hilltop town, a shrine to wine in a former newspaper building in Arizona and more, we survey some of the world’s most characterful new hotels.

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The Opener

21 April 2022

Funding fiascos, changing the clocks, cycling in LA and the inside scoop from the Venice Biennale.

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Dream team

24 February 2022

We track down a few of Monocle’s launch team to ask, ‘What happened next?’

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Sight and sound

27 January 2022

From an artist’s interrogation of identity to an auteur’s latest work of high melodrama, we survey forthcoming cultural highlights.

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Beyond a joke

27 January 2022

At a time when it isn’t always easy to see the funny side, comedians from Denmark to Dubai are providing a vital service by keeping us smiling – while making the powerful nervous. We hail these satirists, cartoonists and…

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In good company

18 November 2021

From the African brand plugging remote villages into a solar-powered grid, to the Lithuanian firm lightening farming’s footprint, we highlight 10 businesses doing it better – to the benefit of both the planet and their…

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World of difference

18 November 2021

We scour the globe to source the brightest ideas and bravest moves going into 2022, from the UK’s new meteorological machine and Egypt’s medical resort to the Austrian townsfolk happy to be Fugging.

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Bags of potential

2 November 2021

As Christmas beckons, we circumnavigate the globe with more efficiency and insider nous than Santa himself, dropping in on the finest spots and shops to source seasonal gifts in 10 of our favourite sleigh stops.