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Urbanism

Sustainable materials, Hollywood campuses and posthumous acclaim for Portuguese designer Daciano da Costa.

  • Issue #161
  • 4 min read
Modern university building with vertical metal cladding and students walking outside with yellow umbrellas
Hospitality

Staying power

Checking in at intimate boltholes including a Portuguese hilltop town hotel, a wine shrine in a former Arizona newspaper building, and more characterful new properties worldwide

  • Issue #154
  • 7 min read
Interior of Casa Sagnier hotel bar with orange banquette seating, wooden stools, and framed photographs on walls
Design

The Monocle Design Awards 2022

From the smartest greenhouses to the prettiest glassware, the Monocle Design Awards celebrate the most pleasing projects that bring our homes and cities to life.

  • Issue #153
  • 45 min read
Anne Street Garden Villas by AOG Architects showing colorful social housing development with individual identities for each dwelling
Design

New wave

Scattered among the dunes and beaches of a Portuguese coastal resort, a series of holiday homes capture the country’s golden age of modernist architecture.

  • Issue #133
  • 1 min read
Sand dunes with wooden fence posts and grass leading to a beach and ocean under clear sky
Design

In safe hands

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

  • Issue #118
  • 5 min read
In safe hands
Design

Magic touch

Alexandra Champalimaud’s interior-design firm has left its mark on the world’s finest hotels.

  • Issue #116
  • 6 min read
Alexandra Champalimaud at her New York design studio desk wearing blue-framed glasses and patterned shirt
Fashion

Life’s a breeze

Not a Hawaiian shirt in sight – the founders of this Porto seaside brand look to the native fishermen for inspiration.

  • Issue #107
  • 8 min read
Life’s a breeze
Culture

Soaring symbol

In Portugal, one swallow doesn’t make a summer: thousands of them do. Ceramic versions of the bird are produced in huge numbers and feature in most Portuguese homes. Why the avian allure?

  • Issue #92
  • 4 min read
Soaring symbol

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