José María Sánchez Garcia’s renovation of a square around Roman ruins in Spain weaves a modern layer into the fabric of an ancient city.

Dance has always been a multidisciplinary form but the Belgian choreographer Frédéric Flamand has specialised in striking collaborations, working with leading architects including Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Diller + Scofidio and Dominique Perrault to explore the limits of bodies and cities

This collection by a Korean designer challenges our restricted thinking about an everyday object – the chair – and gives it multiple uses.

The Norwegian chemist specialises in capturing the smell of places and is passionate about the social implications of her unusual line of work.

A Dutch team led by Hella Jongerius is redesigning the room where the world’s biggest decisions are made.

Here is Icon’s preview to the biggest design event of the year, Milan Design Week 2012. We take a look at Tom Dixon's ambitious venue MOST, the launch of a new brand by Renato Preti, and the rest of the city’s must-see events.

A bad DIY experience prompted the designers at Founded to redesign the humble paint can as a container that saves space, time and effort, as well as being easy on the eye.

Icon 107 is devoted to Theatre. Our cover stars are Rodarte, the fashion duo, who are designing costumes for a production of Don Giovanni in LA, with sets by Frank Gehry, in Gehry’s own Walt Disney Concert Hall. We also talk to a choreographer who has commissioned sets from a roll call of architectural superstars, and we visit three very different theatres – in Cartagena, Spain, Kilden Norway, and the art deco Smith Center in Las Vegas.

A new show at MoMA takes the foreclosure crisis as the starting point for imagining an alternative, but not necessarily better, future for America's suburbs. Here's our review.

This month London’s RIBA hosts a show on Norwegian architecture, 30 of Sol LeWitt’s legendary wall drawings are recreated at the Pompidou-Metz, experimental fashion designs go on display at the Art Institute of Chicago and Peter Cook creates an “immersive, dreamlike space” for Sci-Arc.