Nic Monisse
Deputy Design Editor at Monocle
Writer at @MonocleMag @Monocle24. Funny person. Serious urban designer.
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2 months ago |
monocle.com | Rory Jones |Nic Monisse
LA cosy housing project in Greenland and a botanical garden in Belgium. PAVILIONS ––– BELGIUM Green and gloryThe Meise Botanic Garden just north of Brussels is one of the world’s largest conservatories of endangered plants. Apart from ensuring the security of rare species, the garden also enables the public to view and enjoy these rarities, an experience enhanced by its new Green Ark Project.
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2 months ago |
monocle.com | Nic Monisse
LTake a peek behind the curtains of our new café and shop openings. HOW WE LIVE: A DIMMER VIEWDial it downLighting isn’t just a matter of brightness. Its quality and feel matter too, writes Tyler Brûlé. I recently took my new Toyota Land Cruiser for a spin up to the mountains. I set out late in the afternoon and, before long, the sun started to dip below the jagged peaks. As I approached the turn-off from the motorway to the two-lane road that winds its way to St Moritz, it started to snow.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
monocle.com | Nic Monisse |Will Higginbotham
LFrom an environmentally minded life-sciences campus in San Diego to a 1960s police station in Belgium transformed into a lawyers’ office-cum-community hub, well-considered architecture can help businesses to step up their game and give back to their communities. Architects play a powerful role in shaping our lives and the success of companies too.
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Nov 30, 2023 |
monocle.com | Nic Monisse |Grace Charlton |Julia Lasica |Annabelle Chapman
LA gallery-cum-showroom in São Paulo and why Dubai is the next big design destination. Roca has opened a gallery-cum-showroom in São Paulo, following its creation of similar spaces dedicated to culture and conversation in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, London, Shanghai and Beijing. The Spanish bathroom specialist, which was founded near Barcelona in 1917, is aiming to contribute to the design scenes in the cities where it has outposts.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
monocle.com | Nic Monisse |Thomas Chéné |Jesse Chehak
LArchitecture is about more than simply ushering ideas from sketch to skyscraper. It can play a critical role in solving global issues. Here, three renowned practitioners explain their approach and tell us how they strive to build structures that truly last – or don’t. Renzo Piano was always going to be an architect. The octogenarian Italian designer – whose studio, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, has offices in Paris and his hometown of Genoa – was born into a family of builders.
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Also spoke with @modernister50 about whether buildings can make us laugh and the sneaky way he ‘trick or treats’ 📻 @monocle24 https://t.co/61qqYT5XQB
Caught up with @mcmansionhell @angelabradyriba and @owen_hopkins to talk about whether architecture can be funny (@longabergerco’s building is?)
On Design: @angelabradyRIBA, Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) and @owen_hopkins discuss humour and architecture https://t.co/4UX0lPndkc
This story is in our April issue of @MonocleMag ! Pick up a copy or take out a subscription to read more (and for other good urbanism stories) 🙌🏼
Just did a phone interview with @nicmonisse in London at @MonocleMag about my bill Repealing the Prohibition of Fun. It turns out making ballplay and popping wheelies a crime - and then making it not a crime - is notable even from across an ocean.
