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Issue 074 out now
02 July 2009
Young Londoner Peter Marigold graces the cover of the August issue, which is out now. The designer, whose ingenuity and sculptural dexterity are clearly taking him places, leads us through the woods. We also take a walk along the High Line in New York and visit Berlin’s DMY Festival.
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Sou Fujimoto interview
02 July 2009
Icon's editor Justin McGuirk recently interviewed Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto for Detnk TV. Fujimoto-san discusses his bench project for Lexus and how Japanese architecture should embrace the primitive.
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RCA student radically improves the UK plug
01 July 2009
The show-stopper at this year’s Royal College of Art graduate show was a plug. About time someone tackled the UK’s clunky electrics.
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Alice Rawsthorn on Good Design
30 June 2009
Design critic Alice Rawsthorn gave a sermon on Sunday about good design, complete with hymns by The Clash and Gloria Jones.
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Paris apartment by h2o architects
29 June 2009
Inhabited by an avid comic book collector, this apartment has “strips” of storage and shelving space set into walls and partitions making each room look like a page of comic strips.
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July Diary
26 June 2009
Time to plan your July schedules already. This month we are looking forward to the opening of two pavilions: Sanaa’s outside the Serpentine gallery in London and MOS architects’ outside PS1/Moma in New York.
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Farewell chapel by Ofis
25 June 2009
Ljubljana-based architect Ofis has recently completed the Farewell chapel in Krasnja, Slovenia. It looks a bit like a bunker and has a roof covered in turf.
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Furniture System for Small Apartments in Big Cities
24 June 2009
Architecture practice Obra has launched the “Furniture System for Small Apartments in Big Cities” – a flatpacked flat of sorts, an idea we very much like.
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A housing complex in Moura by Aires Mateus
23 June 2009
Lisbon-based architecture studio Aires Mateus has replaced a collection of derelict buildings in the historic town of Moura, Portugal, with a compact apartment and shopping complex.
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Kindergarten by Kadawittfeldarchitektur in Austria
22 June 2009
The children of Sighartstein in Austria have got a new kindergarten decorated with oversize stylised grass blades in powder-coated aluminum.
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Tord Boontje to replace Arad at the RCA
19 June 2009
Tord Boontje is the new head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art it was announced today.
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Review: Hidden Forms
19 June 2009
Collecting everyday design can seem like an end in itself, so it’s good to see the mundane treasure of a Swiss professor made useful in this ingenious book.
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David Chipperfield's City of Justice
18 June 2009
David Chipperfield Architects has completed this mammoth government complex in Barcelona.
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The High Line
17 June 2009
Icon’s just back from the opening of the High Line in New York.
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Cairo restaurant by PSLab
17 June 2009
Beirut-based lighting design studio PSLab has completed another project from its “organic steel factory”, this time for a restaurant in Cairo, Egypt.
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Open Progress by Transalpino
16 June 2009
As part of Berlin’s DMY design festival, 13 designers spent seven days stapling, gluing, sewing, cutting and folding thin wood veneer in an exercise that was more about interaction than finished product.
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Hollys Coffee by Beyond the Void
15 June 2009
Beyond the Void, a Seoul-based architecture studio, has produced a new look for all 200 branches of Hollys, a Korean chain of coffee shops.
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Review: Framing Modernism
12 June 2009
Modern architecture was fascist Italy’s way of pretending to be civilised – the result is an eerie collection of photographs, says Owen Hatherley.
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Jerwood Contemporary Makers
11 June 2009
Despite transport links in London being on the verge of collapsing, the Jerwood Space’s Contemporary Makers exhibition drew a good crowd on Tuesday, its opening night.
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New store by Sameep Padora & Associates in Mumbai
10 June 2009
At first sight it looks like parts of giant Panton chairs have invaded the Mumbai store Creo in fashionable Kemps Corner.
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Happy Birthday Bauhaus by Osko+Deichmann
09 June 2009
We’re back from Berlin and the DMY festival where the first project we saw was Osko+Deichmann’s tribute to the Bauhaus: a new take on Mart Stam’s and Marcel Breuer’s cantilever chairs.
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Review: Synecdoche, New York
08 June 2009
A man builds a second Manhattan in a warehouse and wrestles with the big questions of death, truth and reality in Charlie Kaufman’s new film.
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Issue 073 out now
04 June 2009
Like a hype-cannon aimed at the future, or a radio telescope picking up transmissions from planet Koolhaas, OMA’s Prada Transformer graces the cover of the July icon, which is in shops now.
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Matthew Darbyshire: Funhouse
04 June 2009
Artist Matthew Darbyshire tells icon about his Hayward installation satirising New Labour’s colourfully malign influence on public architecture.
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Gallery - Doctor’s surgery by TAF
03 June 2009
Stockholm-based designers TAF (icon 072) recently completed a doctor's surgery for private healthcare group Carema in the Swedish capital.
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Airmail: Bringing Lightness to Everyday Objects
02 June 2009
A group of recent Royal College of Art graduates has taken off to Glasgow to present some products that explore the concept of lightness.
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Gallery - Jugaad pavilion in Delhi
01 June 2009
692 discarded oil cans make up the Jugaad pavilion in Delhi by artist and designer Sanjeev Shankar.
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