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4 days ago |
monocle.com | Emilie Wade
Design June 3, 2025 4 Min Read This week the Serpentine Pavilion opens in London's Hyde Park. The annual project sees a temporary structure built in the park each summer, functioning as a vital laboratory for experimentation for the commissioned architect. In 2025, this is Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum. The Bangladeshi architect's pavilion, called "A Capsule in Time", is a striking assembly of four sculptural wooden forms with translucent façades that allow in a quiet, contemplative light.
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1 week ago |
monocle.com | Emilie Wade
Monocle's June issue is here and it's packed with ideas on urbanism and living better, as well as businesses on the up and our annual art special. Visit new galleries from Morocco to Dubai,...
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Emilie Wade
While Spain's Centro Nacional de Fotografía may be set to open in Soria in 2026, surprisingly, the country lacks a national museum dedicated to photography. In 2001, Silvia Omedes decided to do something to support documentary photographers and established her photojournalism archive and showroom, Fundació Photographic Social Vision, in Barcelona.
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Emilie Wade
Artwork in a gallery or a booth of a fair can look very different once you get it home. We meet two collectors in New Delhi and New York to find out what decisions go into the acquisition of pieces and how they live alongside their purchases, from gilded Renoir paintings to sculptures made from car doors and plasterboard. Meanwhile, in Tallinn, we hear from a pop art aficionado about why serious collectors shouldn't overlook the sometimes misunderstood movement.
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2 weeks ago |
monocle.com | Emilie Wade
It's increasingly hard to find somewhere off the beaten track in the Algarve but Quinta do Pinheiro, a converted 19th-century farmstead, is one of them. Bordering the sandy dunes of Ria Formosa Park, this property is made up of five terracota-tiled cottages. Lisbon-based architect Frederico Valsassina preserved key features of the buildings, such as their prominent chimneys, and used traditional materials including cane strips to create rustic living quarters.
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