How do you improve on perfection? For the owners of the Birtcher-Share House it meant asking what the architect would have done and matching his humility at every step.
Fitness tech isn’t new but for key player Apple, it’s not just about squats and downward dogs. There is a moral mission too: to help you live better and longer.
Ed Ruscha helped define the 20th century and his pictures have burnt themselves into the world’s retina. As he prepares for a new show in Berlin, Ruscha welcomes Monocle into his Culver City studio to talk work and inspi…
In an issue where both business and the French Foreign Legion loom large, our editor in chief identifies some potential synergy between the two (based on his own experiences in the South American jungle).
From the changing face of advertising to the fast-paced transformations of Tokyo, Beijing and Madrid, we lift the curtain on the issues, questions and events that have been shaping the world and will continue to resonate…
Seek high and low, in tunnels and along elevated walkways, and you’ll find that there are fascinating stories in every city. Here we take a look at some of our favourite tales from around the globe, originally brought to…
Traditional media brands have been infected by the web’s ‘publish now, worry about the facts later’ ethic and as their standards slip, readers vanish. But now there’s a crop of journalists who can mix old-school standards…
The 1960s was a golden era for West Coast architecture. One of the overlooked heroes of the period was Ed Killingsworth, best known for his work with hotels in later life but something of a maverick of modest mid-century…
With typical egalitarian flourish and quirk, New Zealand’s national carrier has come up with an innovation that will expand the horizons of horizontal leisure travel. Plus overleaf, we discover a new Hong Kong hub, a cosy…
Isolated and challenged financially, Armenia faces a set of problems common to many post-Soviet nations. But in the capital of Yerevan, a new generation of tech-savvy entrepreneurs is forging exciting links with the outside…
Refusing to be derailed by natural disasters and ever-rising costs, Samantha Mink’s architectural debut is a remarkable and liveable modernist home for her parents.