Podcast Episodes

Testing the pressure on our cities with the 2025 Workforce Preference Barometer

JLL’s Sue Asprey Price joins us to discuss the findings from the Workforce Preference Barometer 2025. Then Charlotte McDonald-Gibson reports on the c…

7 months ago

Tall Stories 486: The towering beauty of Switzerland’s Grande Dixence Dam

Jessica Bridger marvels at the tallest dam in Europe, which was constructed in the 1950s and supplies about 20 per cent of Switzerland’s stored energ…

7 months ago

What relationship does South Korea have with public art? Plus: Dubai Design Week and Riba president Chris Williamson.

We speak to South Korean artist Jinjoon Lee about how his country interacts with public art, Inzamam Rashid visits an acclaimed installation from Dub…

7 months, 1 week ago

Tall Stories 485: Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Natural Sciences

Petri Burtsoff takes us to a first-of-its-kind wooden educational building in the Finnish capital.

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7 months, 1 week ago

Planning the cities of the future at the Smart City Expo World Congress

We visit the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona to talk shop with the mayor of Kuala Lumpur, an acclaimed futurist, a transportation officia…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Tall Stories 484: Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael

Ivan Carvalho chronicles the story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s largest public project, the final commission in his impressive body of work.

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Liz Diller on how the High Line continues to evolve in New York

We speak to Liz Diller – the mind behind New York’s High Line – visit Bratislava’s first dedicated centre for architecture and urbanism, and assess h…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Tall Stories 483: Abou Elie – where Beirut's history, politics and nightlife converge

Noor Amylia Hilda takes us to a much-loved pub founded by a former member of the Lebanese Communist Party.

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Unpacking the secrets of city making at Turin’s Utopian Hours

Monocle’s man in Milan, Ed Stocker, decamps to Turin to bring us a collection of conversations from Utopian Hours, the festival dedicated to city mak…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

IPUT special: a tour of Wilton Park and how it’s transforming Dublin

We explore Wilton Park, a stunning 600,000 sq ft development by IPUT, Dublin’s leading property-investment company. Chief executive Niall Gaffney giv…

8 months ago