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The Monocle Travel Guide to Melbourne

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The Monocle Travel Guide to Melbourne will lead you down our favourite laneways, drop by the cutting-edge galleries shaking up the city’s art scene and show you where to marvel at modernist architecture.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is unique for its layered offering. Makers and indie bookshops shimmy up to live-music venues, and cutting-edge galleries nestle neatly into residential neighbourhoods. And that’s before you mention the abundance…

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19. Set the scene

21 January 2021

Melbourne’s Sun Theatre is a prime example of how the magic of cinema can boost an area long after the credits roll.

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Complex life

21 March 2019

How Whitlam Place in Melbourne eschews the cookie-cutter design of most new apartment complexes springing up in the fast-growing city.

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Best in class: Men’s Biz

20 April 2017

The dapper australian barbershop bringing class back to men’s grooming.

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Sweet spots

18 April 2019

Melbourne’s mid-century milk bars are being reimagined by a new breed of entrepreneur. Who fancies a shake?

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Aussie rules

21 September 2017

The Melbourne homes of Beaumaris are a reminder that suburbia delivered hope and modernity to a postwar generation.

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Common good

14 April 2015

Small Giants is an investment company with big aspirations, backing projects that are both sustainable and profitable. The Commons apartment complex is the fruition of its business model centred around profit and purpose…

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27. Counter culture

21 January 2021

The residents of a Melbourne suburb have helped this high street to thrive. Your city should do the same.

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Tread lightly

24 June 2021

For these discerning Australians, a new place to call home means eschewing outdated ideals and focusing on a more sustainable way of living, as pioneered by one trailblazing Antipodean architect.

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Team captain

13 May 2014

Whether it’s successfully running two global airlines, steering a crisis-hit media empire or chairing a major financial institution, Sir Rod Eddington takes leadership inspiration from sports and knows the business game…

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Right on cue

19 May 2022

Behind the camera trained on TV presenter Charlie Pickering stands a multi-talented team who ensure that ‘The Weekly’, Australia’s lively news round-up, is well researched, informative and, most of all, funny.

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Folk’s festival

13 August 2018

Drinks brand Capi has an HQ that’s more than it seems: it’s a place of work and play where unloved office furniture has made way for quality design pieces and works of art inspire all the brands under its roof.

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Up in the heavens

19 October 2017

When the Coptic pope headed to Melbourne, it was about more than tending the flock: he had a skyscraper deal to celebrate.

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Heart of industry

10 February 2015

Abbotsford in Melbourne attracts new residents thanks to its healthy small businesses.

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Expo 79: Designs on the future

20 November 2014

The Melbourne School of Design is rethinking how we approach the visual world around us as well as its own teaching space. Monocle visits the school’s new building to learn why it is going back to the drawing board in order…

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Shelf slackers

17 March 2007

Greville Street Bookstore, Melbourne.