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Douglas Murphy: ‘The fire at Grenfell Tower is a tragedy that should change everything’

Icon’s architecture correspondent identifies four major questions that will need to be addressed in the wake of last week’s disaster Two disasters at the turn

Opinion

Stirling Prize shortlist: ‘Underwhelming, neither too blingy nor particularly challenging’

Douglas Murphy asks what this year’s line-up for the prestigious award says about the state of British architecture Architecture is rarely a subject that makes

Opinion

#BRUTALISM

The brute is back – on television, on social media, in coffee-table books, even in new buildings. But can we ever recapture the movement’s original

Architecture

Last Futures by Douglas Murphy

They may have been failures, beset by naivety, contradictions and political opposition, but revisiting the experimental structures of the 1960s and 70s is more than

Opinion

London School of Architecture

Will Hunter’s new postgraduate course is both a reaction to and an outcome of the progressive marketisation of UK higher education, says Icon’s architecture correspondent Douglas

Opinion

Rijksmuseum: Last year’s Interior of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Design

Robbrecht and Daem: Last year’s Architecture Practice of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Architecture

Elemental: Centro Innovacion, Santiago

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena‘s practice turns corporate design on its head by creating a business innovation lab with the windows on the inside We’re very aware

Architecture

Allianz headquarters in Zurich by Wiel Arets

The building  is clad in glass etched to appear as onyx (image: Jan Bitter) The Dutch architect’s latest building in Switzerland, a headquarters for an insurance

Architecture

Glasgow School of Art – Mackintosh’s masterpiece

As firefighters battle to save the beloved art school, we revisit a piece by Douglas Murphy, in which he describes its significance The fire at the

Architecture

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&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system

A home for tomorrow

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

New Designers celebrates 40 years of nurturing UK creative talent

Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie celebrates Tuscan heritage and contemporary design

The Brecon designed by Nicemakers combines local craftsmanship and Welsh design touches to create midcentury-inspired interior

Revolutionary architectural colour theory




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A home for tomorrow

The Brecon designed by Nicemakers combines local craftsmanship and Welsh design touches to create midcentury-inspired interior

Return of a legend: Gathering revives Cologne’s iconic Café Central

worc.studio blends earthy colours and natural materials at Casa Símera in Polanco, Mexico City

Meet the creative duo preserving a slice of history in the Cilento National Park

StudioAC adds soft pink curves and stainless-steel to interior of popular cookie shop in Toronto

How do we define completeness in architecture? Build of Site examines the case for building on what’s already here

Pelletier de Fontenay transforms century-old home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships

Universal Design Studio and AKQA design interiors for new Georg Jensen flagship showroom on New Bond Street


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&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie celebrates Tuscan heritage and contemporary design

Revolutionary architectural colour theory

The new cabin suites of Sea Containers London honour the golden ages of transatlantic travel

Love story: the Ferm Living x Utzon – Can Lis Collection

Modern roots: This new London showroom, atelier and gallery space is a masterclass in minimalism


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&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system

A home for tomorrow

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

New Designers celebrates 40 years of nurturing UK creative talent

Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie celebrates Tuscan heritage and contemporary design

The Brecon designed by Nicemakers combines local craftsmanship and Welsh design touches to create midcentury-inspired interior

Revolutionary architectural colour theory