Monocle

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MonocleMerano’s Aurora hotel eschews mountain tropes for metropolitan design Aurora’s latest generation brings a fresh look to the Northern Italian hotel that has been in the family for more than 60 years, with designer Hannes Peer.

September 4

MonocleThe expat tribes of Asia you need to know when building a new inner circle Familiar rituals, comfort foods and like-minded people can transform a foreign city into a home away from home. Here’s how to find them.

September 3

Monocle‘Buildings affect our health’: Thomas Heatherwick on how dull architecture is just as harmful as fast food The world-renowned English designer behind Azabudai Hills and Olympia is on a mission to make buildings that better serve our wellbeing.

September 2

MonocleAgainst the encroaching shadow of automation, Homo Faber is a beacon of light Homo Faber’s exhibition this year is proving that craft, like host city Venice, is still buoyant.

September 2

MonocleDiplomatic Design 101: The UN’s newest visitor centre is a study in architectural monotony If minimalism has become the visual language of institutional reassurance, then the Portail des Nations speaks it fluently.

September 1

Uchi (内) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about interiors and the way people live, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

Uchi means inside, and it means home: the room you return to. A magazine, because every week one idea about living deserves to be read slowly. A radar, because we count what the homes and studios of the world are talking about right now — light, timber, colour, small rooms, the kitchen — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We look east first. Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hanoi, Bangkok, then Copenhagen, Milan and New York: the apartments, houses, cafés and hotels where interiors are actually being decided. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Uchi will keep changing: new sources, new signals, a little better each week, never finished. If a room here made you want to move a chair, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。