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For our second annual Travel Top 50 survey, we covered more ground than last year sampling more properties, flat-beds, new terminals, railway stations, lobby bars, inflight snacks and sun loungers. We've also drawn up a list of suitably eclectic awards and hopefully have introduced a host of addresses and names you've never heard of before. As with our first survey, the selection process was the same - no readers' polls, no freebies, no press trips, just the confident opinion and good taste of our well-travelled editors.

Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé presents the second edition of the Monocle Review.

In the days leading up to Christmas we have compiled a last minute gift list.

In the first edition of Monocle's Design Dialogues, an intimate series of discussions on key design issues, we throw the spotlight on the future of the workplace.

The Prix Pictet award’s worthy mission is to promote photographic excellence and environmental sustainability. In its inaugural year the theme was water and the winner, announced by Kofi Annan in Paris, was Canadian photographer Benoit Aquin. Monocle's Culture Editor Robert Bound reports.

Post Sep 11 every embassy was built as a bunker ready to repel all comers, but now from Kathmandu to Harare architects are reinventing the mission as a national calling card. Robert Bound reports.

In our second film report from the Venice Architecture Biennale, Sarah Balmond visits the curated exhibitions in the Giardini, where national pavilions were transformed into temples to architectural thought.

Hosted every other year, the Venice Architecture Biennale invites some of the most conceptual thinkers from around the world to flex their creative muscles to interpret a set theme.

A band that share a few of Monocle’s own city-centric obsessions, St Etienne have mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic architecture.

Founded 32 years ago, Nigerian capital Abuja was a utopian dream. But it became marred by corruption and few could afford to live there. Today, as the cranes return, its new minister is attempting to forge a truly African city.

From luggage to watches to eyewear to mobile phones, this is Monocle's very brief shopping list for some accessories to get you through the coming winter months.

As the US presidential elections draw closer, at Monocle we've been turning our attention to who we'd like to see in the Cabinet. From CEOs to hip hop moguls, we've found a team who could change America's image around the world.

Saul Taylor reports from the heart of Bloomsbury on the enterprise that gives new meaning to the phrase retail therapy.

Whether idly doodling or hastily transcribing interviews in good old shorthand, Monocle recommends the best utensils for your daily tasks. From pens to paper, from U+ in Canada to Düller in Japan, our round up of the world's most stylish yet functional stationery makes up the perfect desk.

When Turkmenistan's President Niyazov died in 2006, it was the end of an eccentric personality cult. His successor promised to open the state up but today the gas-rich nation is still an enigma.