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Hot property

25 January 2024

This new net-zero fire station is carrying the flame for considered civic architecture. It is proof that good urbanism can make even the most functional buildings feel fresh.

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There’s nothing dry about desert architecture. At its best, it channels the spirit of its surroundings and takes inspiration from the light and the landscape. We hit the shimmering Arizona roads to take the temperature of…

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Business

21 February 2019

A taste of things to come from Lebanon and how Brexit is affecting Frankfurt’s housing market.

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Room to glow

15 November 2018

The apartment near Lake Zürich that shows how even a concrete new-build can be warm and cosy.

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Simple but effective

18 October 2018

A childhood LA home, designed by maverick architect RM Schindler, has been brought back to its modernist glory.

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In safe hands

18 October 2018

The home of one of Portugal’s leading architects now belongs to a family friend and is a much-treasured modernist masterpiece.

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Clean slate

19 April 2018

What does it take to breathe life into a neglected district in a long-lasting and meaningful way? We look in on an area in Amsterdam that is doing it right.

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Height of ambition

22 February 2018

Miwako Date, who runs a major property developer, is one of the most powerful business players in Japan and the key mover in shaking up the luxury-hotel scene. So what’s she got planned for Tokyo?

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Bienvenido!

19 January 2017

A recent housing boom in the bohemian neighbourhood of Polanquito has opened it up to a lively new crowd.

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Refit for purpose

12 June 2015

Like so many accidental entrepreneurs, Masataka Baba only started his business because no one was offering what he needed. Now, having turned dozens of Tokyo’s disused commercial buildings into rentable properties, his firm…

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After the revolution

20 May 2015

Once a hotbed of political foment, Mexico City’s Juárez district has been in decline for a number of decades. But now young professionals are changing the neighbourhood, drawn to its central location and solid housing stock…

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Balagne region

17 October 2008

Pine-fringed beaches, rocky outcrops and Italian food and architecture define northern Corsica’s coast. We suggest you make Calvi your first port of call and base of operations on your island property prospectus.

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Living large

17 June 2008

In Monocle’s dream residential building, we would include the features and proportions of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments, with a few additions of our own. Attention developers: ven…

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Nimmanhaemin

17 November 2007

Around 700km north of Bangkok, Chiang Mai is Thailand’s second largest city, and its increasingly metropolitan air is acting as a magnet for those in the creative industries. The neighbourhood of Nimmanhaemin, in the north…

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Designer plans

15 September 2016

Dubai wants to be known for more than its artificial islands and ‘megatall’ skyscrapers. We visit the city’s design district and meet the makers trying to turn it into a bastion of Middle Eastern craft and creativity.

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Work wonders

21 October 2015

Manufacturing in Turin may have withered but the Borgo Rossini district has made grand use of empty industrial spaces to refashion a warm community in its place.