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Height of ambition
The Oscar Niemeyer-designed JK Building is the tallest, most populous high-rise in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Thanks to an open-plan design and an eclectic mix of residents, it’s a city icon.
Bigger picture
Television has become huge business across the globe. Discover the series coming out of Brazil, Nigeria and the Middle East that you should be switching on for in this changing landscape.
The high life
The 1958 Bretagne Building in São Paulo has aged gracefully. Loved for its design, its biggest success is the sense of community it fosters among residents, making it a truly unique place to live.
What’ll it be, sir?
From airport immigration queues to old-school Japanese bars, this issue explores why hospitality reveals a nation's true character — and celebrates those businesses genuinely getting it right.
Revel in the detail: Rogério Fasano
For restaurateur and hotelier Rogério Fasano, hospitality is in the blood. As he prepares to launch in the US, ‘Gero’ tells us how he gets the best from his team.
Thinking ahead
Roman roads that still lead the way, the future of the EU, the pleasure of swinging an axe and more subjects to fire up your imagination and get you talking in 2016.
Ready for a close-up
As Globo, Brazil’s most powerful broadcaster, celebrates its 50th birthday, we visit to find out how it stays atop the TV podium amid monopoly whispers and its Olympic coverage plans.
License to kiln
In Cunha, Brazil, Japan's ancient legacy of firing and glazing lives on. Monocle meets the people keeping the ceramic tradition alive in this quiet colonial town between São Paulo and Rio.
East to West
Meet the Jazilians: the Japanese population in Brazil shares culture with the nation it calls home while interpreting traditional values within a Latin American society. It is a balancing act between old and new.
