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Rooms with a view
We round up the sharpest and most forward-looking architects busy turning heads with their innovative retail designs, lush tropical dwellings and nature-inspired and welcoming commercial spaces.
Market forces
The Monocle Retail Survey returns, scouring the globe for the best new shops and smartest developers. This year’s review is designed to inspire and intrigue, from Buenos Aires to Seoul and beyond.
Americas
There’s no love lost between journalists and politicians but at least Portland is in a caring, sharing mood.
Urbanism
Visit Pec – the Kosovan city with cultural muscle – and find out about Portland’s river revamp.
Business
A Japanese packaging company re-energising an ancient tradition, an innovative medical clinic in Portland, Oregon, and a Q&A with an F&B entrepreneur from Jakarta.
John Jay
For creative mastermind John Jay, a restaurant should focus on ambience as much as food.
The upper trust
For more than 20 years, Ecotrust has supported civic progress and regeneration in Portland. Monocle meets Spencer Beebe, the man behind the organisation’s ‘people, planet and profit’ mission.
Object lessons
From an urban hub for furniture-makers to a man-made island design destination and a studio in a woodland haven, Monocle reveals some daring pockets of inspiration from around the globe.
Lobster spot
If you’re in Maine for any amount of time, leaving without tasting a lobster roll is tantamount to sacrilege. Pay homage at the Eventide Oyster Company…
Out on his own
John Jay helped make Wieden + Kennedy a global creative force. With his own spin-off, GX, he plans even bigger coups – by starting small and getting back to hands-on creativity.
