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MAD Architects creates Beijing kindergarten with colourful roof playscape

The YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten wraps around a historic 18th-century courtyard and stimulates intergenerational integration MAD Architects has completed a large-scale kindergarten project in Beijing with

Architecture

ICON 177: The global politics of Chinese eco-cities, Ou Ning, Shanghai deco, propaganda posters and the V&A in Shenzhen

Following an irritable European tour last year in which President Trump questioned the United States’ role in Nato and, perhaps more significantly, pulled the US

Opinion

Of mountains and water: Ma Yansong’s Shanshui City

Mad Architects draws on traditional Chinese painting and sensitivity to landscape to realise two contrasting landmark projects In 2015, at the age of 40, Ma

Architecture

Ordos Museum by MAD Architects

The Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia, designed by MAD Architects, has reached completion. The structure, located in a desert city in the northern Chinese autonomous

Architecture

Profile: Ma Yansong

In many ways, Ma Yansong is a perfect symbol for the current period in architecture. Building massive projects all across the globe, he presides over

Architecture

Profile: Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson has built a small empire in a former factory in Berlin’s arty Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood. The red-brick building takes up the whole block

Architecture

Feelings Are Facts

Thick smoke and multi-coloured lights make up the installation Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong’s smoke-filled room in Beijing sends Johanna Agerman on a journey of

Opinion

Ma Yansong’s Hutong Bubble

Hutong Bubble 32 looms over the rooftops A strange new presence has popped up in the Nan Luo Gu Xiang section of Beijing. Its form

Architecture

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Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

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

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage

Introducing House of Icon at Design London Shoreditch

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




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

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

The Third Space in Udaipur, India, is a community space that mixes old and new

An island park in central Copenhagen showcases the plants of the world

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

The 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

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

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


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Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage

Introducing House of Icon at Design London Shoreditch

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

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

Hollie Bowden collaborates with artist Cesca Dvorak on the launch of a new blanket collection


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Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

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

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage

Introducing House of Icon at Design London Shoreditch

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