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Posts tagged 'Charles Holland'

Pablo Bronstein

Modernist orthodoxy has taught us to be suspicious of architecture that uses illusion and theatrical gestures. The principles of structural honesty and truth to materials

Opinion

The Sunday Times

How long must the breakfast tables of the middle classes groan under this paper mountain of grainy paparazzi shots, illegible layouts and faux Victoriana? There

Design

The House That Made Me

“Imagine going back to the house where you grew up,” said the portentous voiceover to this four-part TV series, “and finding everything exactly as it

Opinion

SodaStream

The SodaStream is a product with an oddly emotive pull, at least for people of a certain age. Despite the fact that the basic mechanism

Opinion

The New Decor

Chain Leather Swing by Monica Bonivici (image: David Levene) In tackling home furnishings for the Hayward’s summer blockbuster, artists are catching up with design, says

Opinion

Richard Hamilton

The Subject, 1988-90 (image: © Richard Hamilton) The godfather of British pop art feverishly mixes and remixes images until their meaning changes into something shockingly

Opinion

Swiss Minarets

At the end of last year, the Swiss voted to ban the construction of minarets. We asked architects to respond to the move, and suggest

Opinion

What We Learned

Images of Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The photos are part of a tourning exhibitionl, on show at the Museum of

Opinion

Unpacking My Library

Architects’ Rem-infested bookshelves make Charles Holland long for Jilly Cooper. “Books are more important than buildings,” says Peter Eisenman revealingly in Unpacking My Library. “Without

Opinion

James Wines

SITE’s Indeterminate Facade Building, Houston 1974 (image: SITE) A lecture by this 1970s iconoclast caused palpable excitement, says Charles Holland – but the rhetoric doesn’t

Opinion

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Alexandra Road Estate

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Audo Copenhagen

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

Zieta

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Fritz Hansen ReNew

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Storm Park

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snohetta

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway




Architects

Alexandra Road Estate

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Storm Park

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snohetta

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Dansk Arkitektur Center The Water is Coming

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

Kadre Architects

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

Piero Lissoni: Environments book by Rizzoli

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design


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Audo Copenhagen

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

Zieta

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Fritz Hansen ReNew

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Budapest Design Week

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

Gushka2

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic


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Alexandra Road Estate

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Audo Copenhagen

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

Zieta

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Fritz Hansen ReNew

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Storm Park

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snohetta

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway