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Floor fillers

17 May 2008

Deutsche Börse, a public company since 2001, operates Germany’s biggest stock exchange, in Frankfurt. With locations in 14 countries, the company is valued at €26bn, making it one of the largest exchange organisations in…

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The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods #348: Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt

15 August 2023

Frankfurt in Germany is known as the country’s financial capital and is home to one of Europe’s largest airports. But when it comes to food, the city has a surprisingly unique take on a particular German and Austrian staple…

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This is the way

17 March 2008

Schiphol, JFK and now Frankfurt airports have all turned to one Dutch designer to create the perfect signage systems. Paul Mijksenaar tells Monocle about his crusade to take the art of wayfinding in a new direction.

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Editor’s letter

17 May 2018

Our editor in chief couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing as he made one of his regular trips through airport security recently: is one of the most tiresome travails of modern travel being revolutionised?

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Back to the future

18 May 2017

We travel back to a time when there was still hope for Berlin’s new airport and find out why it still hasn’t got off the ground, look ahead to the arrival of driverless cars – and ask whether they’re driving a future that…

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Ideas to steal

17 June 2011

Making the word’s busiest cities a little more ordered should be top of most urban planners to-do lists. And when one city strikes on an idea that works, it seems the rest of the globe is keen to catch up.

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This is the way

17 March 2008

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The Agenda: Business

25 January 2024

A course correction for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, rethinking men’s skincare and behind the scenes at international hotel brand Fairmont.

Radio

The Monocle Daily, episode 722

12 August 2014

As Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes office for yet another five years, Fadi Hakura and Mustafa Akyol discuss the challenges ahead. We also unpick the banana war in Brazil and discuss why Frankfurt’s airport extension has to…

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Safe option

17 January 2009

New York’s JFK terminal 3 is bulking up on security equipment to fight terrorism – and catch people who forgot to throw away their water bottle. And it’s not the only airport doing so – providers of this technology are…

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Madrid: business city

17 June 2008

It may lack the financial might of London or Frankfurt, but we have chosen Madrid as our business city because of its emergence as the Iberian city of opportunity, its status as gateway to Latin America, campaign to att…

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Space to Grow

17 March 2007

Bremen has always been an independent, outward-looking city, but that didn’t help it when the port’s traditional shipbuilding trade went into decline. Now the city has reinvented itself as a hi-tech hub. With low rents, a…

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Teutonic lights

21 February 2013

When we think about 21st-century Europe, we think about Germany. But our picture of the character and global outlook of the country can often be shaped by outdated notions. Here, Monocle crosses the real Germany and disc…

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Issue 89: Observation

19 November 2015

Editor in chief Tyler Brûlé is busy decking the Midori House halls with boughs of holly and wrapping up plans for a productive year of print in 2016. That’s not to mention the book tours, markets, parties…

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Track record

17 October 2007

On 14 November the first Eurostar train should pull out from the new €1.15bn St Pancras International station headed for Paris. The station has come a long way since the 19th century when it was opened to receive ale del…

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National expression

17 March 2008

There are many ways for a nation to make a name for itself and build international brand equity. From winning a place on the Olympic podium to positioning itself as a must-stop hub, the options are plentiful, but the res…