Identikit suburban projects and architects without imagination have sullied the reputation of property development but Monocle has tracked down five firms putting passion, innovation and social conscience back into the…
Thursday 7 March
The fat cats of real estate will descend on Cannes next week for MIPIM, their annual hobnobbing hoedown. Monocle will be there too – busy wondering where all the artists and architects have got to.
The upside to rising fuel prices and a depressed property market is more willingness to embrace Kandiyohi Development Partners’ mantra: find a better way. Plus, overleaf, the view from New York
Monday 14 December
Amid salacious headlines, a plummeting stock market and plunging property prices, Dubai seems well and truly stymied.
Wednesday 12 January
Last year may have been terrible for Palestinian politics, but 2010 could not have been better for tourism in the area.
Tuesday 8 June
“We see Egypt like an African China,” says Maurizio Ribotti, CEO of the Italian-based Design Partners and mastermind of the annual Zona Tortona satellite design event in Milan.
Global property markets may be undergoing a brutal shakedown but big corporations and sovereign wealth funds have not stopped shopping. And they each seem to have a favourite city to invest in. That’s why LA’s skyline is…
Thursday 21 July
With global retailers turning the screws and consumers demanding more choice, the Indian government is finally considering removing restrictions on supermarket chains.
Monday 7 January
In 2011 I travelled to China for the first time in 10 years. As soon as I stepped off the plane in Shanghai it was hard to ignore the sense of possibility. Here was a nation on the rise despite all of its complexities, its…
The sterotypes no longer apply to Germany: both culturally and economically the country is home to fresh ideas and exciting developments. It’s time for the world, and Germans, to embrace a new future.
Monday 26 March
Out in the UAE last week – up and down the Sheikh Zayed road from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and back again in heat hazes and sandstorms, the place seemed different to last time I was there – to look at art, at least – three years…
Engineering company Arup is the name that connects the Sydney Opera House to the proposed Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi. The owner-operated firm’s pioneering staff are the go-to guys if you want to construct the impossible…
2012 offered many architectural talking points, from Renzo Piano’s pointy Shard in London to K2S’s small but perfectly formed wooden Chapel of Silence in Helsinki; 2013 promises even more. Here are seven projects completing…
How Google navigates geopolitics, why Mexicans are set to shrink, and why Atlantic City is betting on building more casinos. Plus, our Washington column looks at Obama's recruitment drive for new US ambassadors.
Benjamin Netanyahu's motorcade and urban regeneration in Mecca.
Mexico City's taxi fleet plans to go green, all change at Chattanooga, and how Twitter is helping track the spread of illness through cities.
Monday 26 November
With Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Viktor Bout in an Illinois penitentiary, Kim Jong-un busy with a new lady friend and Ugg boots finally on the way out, can you name the world’s biggest public enemy…
It was the perfect powdery snow blown in from Siberia that attracted the Aussie skiers. And when they decided to stay put and open hotels and cafés they kickstarted a small business and development boom in Niseko, a once…
Bujumbura has got all the substance required to turn Burundi’s backwater capital into an African success story and the country’s upcoming elections are a chance to create lasting peace after 15 years of civil war. But…
This remote north-eastern corner of Russia is an inhospitable land of fire, ice and earthquakes but the stunning scenery, hot springs and huge reserves of salmon suggest a seismic shift in fortunes could be about to happen…
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