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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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Column: Rue Kothari on culture and craft in the Global South

Italian studio Favaretto & Partners designs playful dog bowl for Milanese brand United Pets

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

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

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

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

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

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Architects

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

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

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

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

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


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Column: Rue Kothari on culture and craft in the Global South

Italian studio Favaretto & Partners designs playful dog bowl for Milanese brand United Pets

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

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

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

BAINA collaborates with Estudio Persona to create a limited-edition towelling collection

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

RIMOWA collaborates with Ptolemy Mann for its latest limited-edition release

Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings


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Column: Rue Kothari on culture and craft in the Global South

Italian studio Favaretto & Partners designs playful dog bowl for Milanese brand United Pets

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

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

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

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

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

BAINA collaborates with Estudio Persona to create a limited-edition towelling collection

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