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Posts tagged 'David Adjaye'

Sir David Adjaye wins Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

The principal of Adjaye Associates has been celebrated by RIBA for his work ‘to create a better future’ The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

Architecture

David Adjaye’s artistic architecture demonstrates his acute cultural sensitivity and sense of place

 Dirty House in Hackney by David Adjaye, completed in 2002. Image by Ed Reeve David Adjaye’s artistic approach to the built environment has won him

Architecture

David Adjaye and Mariam Kamara on working together as mentor and protégée

David Adjaye and Mariam Kamara. Photo courtesy of the Rolex Mentorship Programme David Adjaye and his protégée Mariam Kamara talk about their WhatsApp meetings and

Architecture

Modern memorial architecture confronts the past and challenges us to remember history

 The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, by Mass Design Group Today’s memorials are less about quiet contemplation of the past than direct

Architecture

Icon 190: Architecture, Memory and Identity

Photo by Fabrice Fouillet, from the Colosses series Memory, Memorials and Identity: This month’s issue investigates how design and architecture can reflect and shape who

Opinion

Digital baroque: The British architects combining the digital and the historical

Combining the design techniques of the digital avant-garde with pomo’s sense of historic context, a new generation of British architects is stepping into the limelight, says

Design

David Adjaye on Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

In 2008, the British architect won the job of a lifetime, and for eight years it was all-consuming. Now he’s moving on, but still can’t

Architecture

David Adjaye and Moroso

Just weeks before David Adjaye’s Double Zero chair was unveiled at Milan Furniture Fair, Icon joined the architect at Moroso’s actory in Udine as he

Design

David Adjaye and Moroso

In Milan next week, the architect is launching Double Zero, a luxurious dining chair that will be the forerunner to a whole series. For our

Design

Icon 143: Studios

Out tomorrow, in our latest issue we go behind the scenes with Inga Sempé, Frank Gehry, Michael Young, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Marten Baas, David Adjaye

Opinion

Editor's choice

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

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

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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024




Architects

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

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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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

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

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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024