Design
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Push the boat out
When the sun shines on Genoa, its well-dressed residents come out in force. Join the sun-kissed crew on the waterfront or head into town for a sundowner in a crisp white shirt.
Transport design: full steam ahead
Japan’s long-distance trains are entering a new era of luxury and innovation. Monocle visits the industrial and interior designers who are redefining train travel.
Podium finish
Rome’s Olympic Village is now a modernist urban marvel – and a winning place to live.
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.
Mix it up
Merging retail and residential can have a positive effect on a community. We visit Denmark and Japan to marvel at multitasking buildings that owe their success to their synergy.
Signs of the times
Our favourite city design details, from hanging lamps in Copenhagen to neon signs in Warsaw.
Artist studios: changing spaces
The affordability of artists’ studios is a good judge of cultural quality of life. We visit Havana, Hong Kong and Leipzig, three cities where vibrant life meets cheap space to forge creative success.
2016 Venice Architecture Biennale – National Pavilions
Our second film report from the Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on the national pavilions’ responses to curator Alejandro Aravena’s quest for new points of view on the social, political and cultural issues facing the…
2016 Venice Biennale – Reporting from the Front
In the first of two film reports from the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale we talk to Chilean architect – and this year’s curator – Alejandro Aravena about his chosen theme ‘Reporting from the Front’…
Collecting
Drop anchor for seaside sales and collectors from the Italian Riviera to Newport Beach.
