Ideal and utopian urban plans are condensed, measured and compared in this fascinating study. Will it help us map out our future?

Recession Design produces beautiful instruction manuals that help you build your very own designer pieces out of materials from your local hardware store.

August is normally a quiet month, but we still found a few events to put in your diary, from an exhibition of Valerio Olgiati's work to a talk with Jan Jongert from 2021 Architecten, introduced by icon's editor, Justin McGuirk.

The latest in Phaidon's 10x10 series of critics' choices provides a bookend to the boom years and hints at a more responsible future.

Muji and Thonet have collaborated on a range of bentwood and tubular steel furniture available in stores in August.

MOS Architects' pavilion for arts venue PS1 in New York has now opened. Here's a gallery of photographer Wade Zimmerman's brilliant pictures of this hairy beast.

The controversial demolition of the former East German parliament is now complete. Berlin-based photographer Thorsten Klapsch has unearthed his pictures of it from the early 1990s, soon after it was abandoned.

Zaha Hadid Architects has created a chamber music hall inside Manchester Art Gallery as an ode to Johann Sebastian Bach.

The final deadline for registering your London Design Festival event with the icon design trail is this Friday, 17 July.

We covered the opening of New York’s High Line in the August issue of icon and got so much nice photography from photographers Floto+Warner that we decided to make a gallery of it.