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Stefano Boeri is thinking about cities and ecology. The Milan-based architect, planner and educator has been the President of the Triennale Milano since 2018. Next May he will convene the 24th edition ...
The Dutch architecture practice is designing a Brexit installation for the opening of London’s Design Museum. Partner-in-charge Reinier de Graaf reflects on how the practice’s An engaging ...
On a tall plinth outside the grand, gilded Petit Palais is a small aluminium spaceship. In 1938, Charlotte Perriand and her collaborator Pierre Jeanneret designed It’s rare that a building looks like ...
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 ...
Konstantin Grcic has recently completed a bench for BD Barcelona Design. Launched at IMM Cologne, Bench B is a modular system that was originally inspired “I wanted to enjoy the project,” says ...
Montreal-based architecture firm Pelletier de Fontenay brings together hulking geometry and minimalist aesthetics for its latest project Sutton House, a century-old home tucked away in Quebec’s ...
ICON remains in print, but we now also publish issues digitally. Each edition is published online in delayed releases following print, so that we can keep the magazine alive and prioritise subscribers ...
Icon met Heatherwick in 2017. Portrait: Felicity McCabe. In the lobby of Thomas Heatherwick’s studio, a coffee table is being erected at impressive speed, its Inside Heatherwick’s Vessel, New York.
Design firm Architensions has created a phantasmagorical installation, dubbed The Playground, on the grounds of the Californian music festival Coachella. The Playground consists of four steel-framed ...
Los Angeles design agency Public Art Company unveils playful art commissions for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025 ...
It sometimes feels like brands have forgotten how to appeal to simple human emotions and desires – at least when it comes to brand spaces. What if more brand spaces were designed to trigger specific ...