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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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	David Chipperfield's City of Justice 18 June 2009 David Chipperfield Architects has completed this mammoth government complex in Barcelona. view



	The High Line 17 June 2009 Icon’s just back from the opening of the High Line in New York. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view



	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. view

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