TagsMonocle 24: The Urbanist

Finding a home for The Beatles’ Abbey Road crossing and London’s Museum of Youth Culture

We look at the new home for London’s Museum of Youth Culture, a Chicago collective who embeds cultural venues into neighbourhoods and traffic solutions...

Tall Stories 520: Vienna’s art nouveau Tennisclub SV Schwarz-Blau

Alexei Korolyov takes us to one of Vienna’s most architecturally stunning tennis clubs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Source link

Designing a modern library that is relevant to people and place

We review a new library project in Oregon, learn about a system helping Swedish city-dwellers share and find out how to build sticky neighbourhoods.See...

Tall Stories 519: Exploring Caracas’ panoramic Humboldt Hotel

Gustavo Ocando Alex tells us the story of Hotel Humboldt, which sits on the northern hills of Caracas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Source link

Thomas Heatherwick on generosity in urban design and how to sustain a project’s momentum

We assess two long-running London projects: Thomas Heatherwick joins us to talk about Olympia; while Nick Watson outlines the decades of progress at Elephant...

Tall Stories 517: The past and present grow together at Chengdu’s West Village

Tomás Pinheiro takes us to West Village in Chengdu to see how local vernacular and modern-day needs go hand in hand in this megaproject.See...

How London’s South Bank has supported culture for 75 years

The CEO of South Bank Employers’ Group discusses how the area’s institutions work together to help each other flourish. We also speak to the...

Tall Stories 517: How La Bulla is making itself heard in Veracruz

Verity de Cala takes us to La Bulla in Mexico’s coastal city of Veracruz to see how this park redevelopment project is impacting the...

How to support the ecosystems that make up our cities

We consider the relationship between our cities and nature as we explore the sponge city concept and learn how our buildings can be kinder...