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Liquid Glacial by Zaha Hadid

For David Gill’s gallery in west London, Zaha Hadid has created an ice-like table that appears to be melting into its own legs In preparation

Design

British Design, 1948-2012

The V&A’s tour through British design takes the 1948 “Austerity Olympics” as its starting point. As such, the exhibition tries to draw a tidy circle

Opinion

Frédéric Flamand: combining dance and architecture

Ever since choreographers began to test the conventions of classical ballet, which were codified in the 19th century, they have fallen into two main camps:

Architecture

The architecture of failure

The 19th-century fascination with ruins was more than romantic affectation. It reflected a growing awareness of the fraught relationship between nature and technology – an

Architecture

The Art-Architecture Complex

Hal Foster is a celebrated critic, a Princeton professor and part of a generation of art writers (along with fellow October magazine editors Rosalind Krauss,

Opinion

Zaha Hadid in Marseille

Zaha Hadid’s headquarters for a shipping company, the first tower her practice has realised, dominates France’s second-largest city. “Marseille is very horizontal,” says Jim Heverin,

Architecture

Inside OMA

There is no practice on the planet quite like Rem Koolhaas’ OMA There is no practice on the planet quite like Rem Koolhaas’ OMA. It

Architecture

Olympic Park: Regeneration and Legacy

With less than a year to go before the 2012 Olympics in London, how is the park shaping up – and what difference will the

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

Zaha in Glasgow

Hadid has parked the city’s vast collection of transport artefacts in a technically ingenious, column-free space under a striking zigzag roof A transport museum seems

Architecture

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

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

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

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

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

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Exports on the rise: Portuguese furniture in the spotlight at BDNY – Boutique Design 2024




Architects

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400


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

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

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

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

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

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

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Exports on the rise: Portuguese furniture in the spotlight at BDNY – Boutique Design 2024