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Monocle’s Quality of Life survey 2023: The world’s most liveable cities
This year’s survey of the best places to enjoy all that life offers finds a world grappling with new urban challenges.
Festival season
Model-making in Rome, South Korea’s craft revolution and why good architecture should be a universal right.
Wear it’s at
The Danish capital has become a fashion and retail powerhouse. We visit new menswear shop Goods, then meet the talent driving a wave of creativity and edgy style.
Design
Mexico City’s “green lungs” and architectural photographer Hélène Binet heads to Milan.
The Opener
Pablo Escobar’s hippos, manhole-cover designs and a fake cemetery in Egypt.
Following a hunch
As the canny, optimistic winners of this year's Monocle Design Awards demonstrate, staying on top of your game requires detective instincts and curiosity about what makes the world tick.
Out of the past
For more than 150 years, Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has fostered the nation’s gifted designers. Now it is finally building an archive to celebrate its history.
All falling into place
Fifty architects and planners from around the world reveal the secret ingredients behind spaces that truly work, from Copenhagen cathedrals to bustling restaurants.
Setting the stage
Part of the city’s scenery in more ways than one, Vega has risen from its socialist roots to provide the perfect home for all kinds of music.
Brick’s blessing
At this huge ecclesiastical spectacle, it’s small details that count: its five million bricks were sanded by hand.writer
