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Posts tagged 'Oscar Niemeyer'

Sérgio Bernardes

Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil A documentary explores the radical designs that made Brazilian modernist, playboy and Niemeyer contemporary Sérgio Bernardes a star

Opinion

Rebel Architecture

Yasmeen Lari outside a women’s centre in Sindh, Pakistan. It is built on stilts to withstand floods Al Jazeera’s documentary series adopts a wide definition

Opinion

Beyond the Supersquare

After Clara Porset and Xavier Guerreiro, by Fernanda Fragateiro, 2013 Claire Barliant salutes a brave and overdue attempt to unravel the legacy of modernist architecture

Opinion

United Nations Redesign

It took a team of 11 leading architects to create the United Nations headquarters in 1952. The assemblage of sculptural forms on Manhattan’s east side,

Design

Six of the Best: Vicky Richardson

  Vicky Richardson is director of the British Council Department of Architecture, Design and Fashion since 2010, Richardson was formerly a magazine editor and writer.

Design

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, was intended as the foundation of a new city quarter, but civil war intervened and it was

Architecture

Icon Magazine

“Icon” is not a word to be used lightly on these pages but, on the occasion of our hundredth issue, somehow it seemed appropriate Icon

Design

Centro Niemeyer by Oscar Niemeyer

Centro Niemeyer is a new cultural centre for the port city of Avilés in northern Spain, designed by the 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Occupying

Architecture

Brasilia

Oscar Niemeyer’s National Museum of the Republic, Brasilia, with his cathedral, left (image: Cristobal Palma) A city can work as a city and as a

Design

Sensate

Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, by Marcel Wanders, 2001 (image: © Marcel Wanders) A show that blurs body, furniture and space unnerves and delights Tania Ketenjian

Opinion

Editor's choice

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

Belmond and apartamento unveil latest book Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast

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

Has the design industry become enamoured with the hype culture of the fashion world?

Los Angeles design agency Public Art Company unveils playful art commissions for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025

Mission Aldebaran: An immersive exhibition fusing fragrance and furniture

Lexus brings human-centred technology and cutting-edge design to this year’s Milan Design Week

ICON 217 : Spring/Summer 2025

Matter and Shape returns to Paris for its second edition




Architects

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

Note (design studio) presents first architecture project in Sweden’s rural Jämtland

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


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Belmond and apartamento unveil latest book Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast

Has the design industry become enamoured with the hype culture of the fashion world?

Los Angeles design agency Public Art Company unveils playful art commissions for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025

Mission Aldebaran: An immersive exhibition fusing fragrance and furniture

Lexus brings human-centred technology and cutting-edge design to this year’s Milan Design Week

Matter and Shape returns to Paris for its second edition

100 Years of Waveriding: A Design-Led Dive into Cornwall’s Surf Culture

Dexter Wisby exhibits his Studio Salvage Collection at CDW 2025

The evocative works of Edvard Munch inspire a new capsule collection by Rejina Pyo and MUNCH Museum


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

Belmond and apartamento unveil latest book Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast

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

Has the design industry become enamoured with the hype culture of the fashion world?

Los Angeles design agency Public Art Company unveils playful art commissions for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025

Mission Aldebaran: An immersive exhibition fusing fragrance and furniture

Lexus brings human-centred technology and cutting-edge design to this year’s Milan Design Week

ICON 217 : Spring/Summer 2025

Matter and Shape returns to Paris for its second edition