2009 is coming to an end and we’ll be offline for a while recharging our batteries for the adventures of 2010. Look out for our special fiction issue, in stores at the beginning of January. Until then, happy holidays!

Sweden’s first Camper store has opened in Malmö, designed by TAF. The inspiration for the design came from ice cream and hundreds-and-thousands.

When Studio Glithero were asked to reinvent British classics they created a collection of ceramics infused with light-sensitive chemicals.

George Orwell’s dystopian classic is given a stage treatment. It’s torture, says Owen Hatherley.

In the January issue of icon we are covering the Atelierdorp, a design collective squatting in a church in Eindhoven. Raoul Kramer captured its life at the Pastoor van Arskerk for the feature  – here are some of the photographs we didn’t have space for in the magazine.

A new banqueting hall, restaurant and bar have been completed in the grounds of the Mumbai Race Course by Serie Architects.

It’s hard not to see this seminal artist’s work as a celebration of ephemeral America – but these days its glamour is less obvious.

Essence is a new collection of glass and ceramic pieces by Venice based designer Luca Nichetto.

Dune 4.2 is a glinting thicket of LEDs by Rotterdam’s River Maas that responds to the movements of passers-by.

Bjarke Ingels is the cover story of the January 2010 issue of icon, which is in shops now. Inside, we manage to get the jet-setter to stay in one place for long enough to tell us about his time at OMA, the advantages of chaos and what it’s like being the world’s most in-demand young architects.