When people tell you that there are no new ideas, don’t listen. Cultural ventures from the US to Asia are proving that combining two pursuits is sound business that’s popular with punters. A cinema-hotel, anyone? Get your…
Could a co-operative housing estate in Switzerland be the model for a new way of living that can help city dwellers escape sky-high rents and a lack of interaction? We head to Mehr als Wohnen to find out.
We travel back to a time when there was still hope for Berlin’s new airport and find out why it still hasn’t got off the ground, look ahead to the arrival of driverless cars – and ask whether they’re driving a future that…
Cindy, Lisa and Todd have changed your lives and taken over your TV menu. They are the power behind the Netflix throne and here’s what they have planned for their encore.
In retrospect the past seven years have seemed quiet without a satirical whisper from the US’s favourite left-leaning dissenter Michael Moore. Fortunately the Oscar-winning film-maker’s latest work, Where to Invade Next …
Videocassette recorders (VCRs) – the clunky black boxes that graced every 1990s living room – will soon be no more. Osaka’s Funai Electric, which has been churning out the machines for 33 years and is the last company in…
Africa’s tropical island of São Tomé isn’t so much a paradise lost as an opportunity squandered. Monocle reports on why corruption and misguided ambition are blights on an otherwise unspoilt landscape.
As Japan moves towards the end of the financial year, local governments and even the National Tax Agency are clearing out their cupboards and holding sales of unwanted and confiscated goods via online auction site Yahoo…
Are all remakes bad news? Not when you are the world’s smartest cinema operator. Monocle surveys a vast upgrade from ragged art-house authenticity to the gleaming celebration of cinema that is now the Curzon Bloomsbury.