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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. The post ‘Buildings affect our health’: Thomas Heatherwick on how dull architecture

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. The post Against the encroaching shadow of automation, Homo Faber is a beacon of light appeared first on Monocle .

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. The post Diplomatic Design 101: The UN’s newest visitor centre is a study in architectural monot

September 1

Hakken (発見) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about design and branding, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

A magazine, because every week has a signal worth reading slowly. A radar, because we count what the world's studios are talking about — typography, materials, heritage, colour — 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 do not aim to be complete. We aim to notice: the small finding, the quiet exhibition in Kyoto, the idea from a Copenhagen studio that would work in Osaka. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Hakken will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If something here helped you see, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。