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16 results for Gdansk

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What’s up, dock?

16 October 2015

Rarely out of the news during the dying years of communism, Gdansk slipped into obscurity when democracy came to Poland. Now the port city is making waves again as it regains its place as a major trading hub and attracts…

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The Monocle Daily - Monday 14 January

14 January 2019

We assess rising tensions between the US and Turkey, discuss the assassination of the mayor of Gdansk, learn why France and Italy are trying to build a new rail link and find out why the Greek government is in crisis.

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Business

17 May 2007

Living on Wall Street and the rise of theRussian technopark.

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Cities

17 May 2018

The duo connecting city-dwellers with nature and Athens’ city hall asks residents for ideas.

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8. There goes the neighbourhood

21 May 2020

Across garden fences and from open front doors, the new community connections being forged during lockdown must endure.

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Take your pick

21 October 2015

This month’s array of places to stay includes a regency-era London hotel, a renovated bank in North Carolina and a hostel in Tokyo that offers books instead of breakfast.

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Cities

21 February 2019

Rethinking urbanism in Minneapolis and why students won’t be lighting up in Copenhagen.

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Cities

18 April 2019

Athens’ outgoing mayor shares advice for his successor and Montréal’s shops start talking the talk.

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Pray & display

18 August 2011

Poland remains one of Catholicism’s European bastions, where the religious market is thriving. Trade fair SacroExpo is a kitsch celebration of everything from souped-up confessional boxes to huge church bells – via an…

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Stick ’em up!

29 April 2021

When done well, posters can persuade us to buy a pen, observe social norms or fly to a faraway land. They look great too. Put them on your walls.

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Let’s talk shops

20 September 2018

Is it game over for stores, malls and high streets? Not according to these developers and place-makers who believe they have the formula that makes bricks-and-mortar retail work.

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Float market

17 October 2009

The yachting industry has suffered some knocks and Cannes boat fair was 14 per cent down in attendance this year, but there are signs it’s on course for a recovery. And there’s a new appreciation of old-school and sustai…

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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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Splinter Group

22 February 2024

If the room you’re sitting in contains furniture made from wood, there’s a strong chance that the raw material came from Poland. More than a third of the country’s landscape is forest. These plentiful resources, combined…

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Who we’d hire

26 October 2023

Here’s our wish list of firms that we would commission to create the perfect HQ, home or hotel. Read on for the studios on the up, furniture firms to tap and developers with whom to develop a closer relationship. Let’s get…

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Well served

23 March 2017

What if hotels and restaurants were unable to employ the global workforce that has made them so successful? If you like your flat white with a smile, read on.