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	Green Point Stadium, Cape Town We go behind (and under) the scenes at Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium

	Gallery: Las Vegas Studio In 1968 Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi took a class of Yale architecture students to Las Vegas. Here are the snapshots from the now famous trip.

	Gallery: The Office Park The Office Park is a series of photographs by Nicholas Cobb depicting mysterious happenings in a suburban business park.

	Gallery: Istanbul by Ali Taptik In the current issue of icon (issue 081) we take an alternative view of Europe’s fastest-growing city. Here is a gallery of images taken by the photographer for the piece, Istanbul native Ali Taptik.

	Gallery: Atelierdorp 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.

	Pages from Aitor Throup’s sketchbook When we profiled Aitor Throup in the November issue of icon, we promised you a gallery of his illustrations. Here are a few that he selected from his sketchbooks, complete with his notes.

	World Peace City by Edgar Gonzalez World Peace City is Guatemalan artist Edgar Gonzalez’s Utopian vision of a city. The piece is made up of 300 individual drawings to date, each completed on Gonzalez’s commute from Brooklyn, where he now lives, to Manhattan, where he works as a bartender.

	London Design Festival: Max Lamb China Granite Project Designer Max Lamb continues his favourite pastime – slicing out seats from boulders to make chairs and cutting stones in half to make coffee tables – for an exhibition at Johnson Trading Gallery, showing in London for the first time.

	Lisbon architecture graffiti Down a narrow Lisbon alley, a very literate graffiti artist sprays his own hall of fame.

	Ad-Site by Mike Whelan Photographer Mike Whelan is fascinated by the images on the hoardings that surround construction sites. He has documented his findings in the photographic project Ad-Site.

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

	Gallery: The Afterparty pavilion by MOS Architects 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.

	Gallery: Palast der Republik 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.

	Highline by Floto+Warner 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.

	Doctor’s surgery by TAF Stockholm-based designers TAF (icon 072) recently completed a doctor's surgery for private healthcare group Carema in the Swedish capital.

	Jugaad pavilion in Delhi 692 discarded oil cans make up the Jugaad pavilion in Delhi by artist and designer Sanjeev Shankar.

	Ethelburga Tower: At Home in a High-Rise Photographer Mark Cowper's Ethelburga Tower: At Home in a High-Rise, at the Geffrye Museum until 31 August, studies the interior of a residential tower block that is characterised by its inhabitants.

	Microsituations by Marc Trotereau Like a flâneur with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Marc Trotereau rearranges the urban landscape for his photographs.

	The making of Stefan Diez’s Chassis chair Stefan Diez’s latest chair, for Wilkhahn, is manufactured using technology from the car industry. Watch the first prototypes being made, step by step.

	Central High School 9 LA-based photographer Monica Nouwens shot this photo essay on Central High School 9 in Los Angeles designed by Viennese architect Coop Himmelb(l)au.

	Real Foto These photographs were found on Allegro, Poland’s answer to Ebay. Among them is a woman showing off her fur coat with a plastic bag over her head and a woman trying to fetch a few złoty for the stockings she’s wearing.

	Burj Dubai British photographer David Hobcote chartered a helicopter to capture the full impact of the Burj Dubai. “I was one of the last unofficial photographers to take shots of the Burj from the air."

	Design Academy Eindhoven Design Academy Eindhoven shouldn’t be in financial difficulty any time soon – the school has recently been given special status by the Dutch government, and awarded extra funding. We’re looking forward to seeing what they spend it on, because the graduation show this year was excellent.

	Richard Nicholson, Darkroom This series of 22 photographs is Richard Nicholson’s memoir of the fading art of darkroom photography. He has documented the remaining professional darkrooms in London surviving the takeover of digital photography.

	'The platform kiosk’ by Jenny Nordquist On a recent trip to Japan Swedish photographer Jenny Nordquist turned her lens on the small kiosks that stand on the platforms of train and underground stations across the country. This series of 16 photographs is the continuation of a body of work titled Kiosk Nostalgia.

	Seizure by Roger Hiorns A derelict and soon to be demolished block of flats close to Elephant & Castle is the site for Art Angel’s and Jerwood’s latest commission Seizure by Roger Hiorns – a seductive cave of cobalt blue crystals.

	30 years of the Lego minifig It has been 30 years since Lego launched its much-loved minifigure, designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen. The familiar little yellow men and women with funny hair and bemused expressions were the culmination of years of work. Here’s a gallery of the best and most creative over the years.

	Kiosk All of these objects were collected on a trip to Hong Kong by New York-based duo Kiosk. The couple travel the world in search of “interesting items” that they buy to sell in their New York shop. Among the collection are a set of airmail envelopes, a frying tool, a big yellow calculator and some soy sauce.

	Fabrico Próprio Fabrico Próprio is Portuguese for “made properly”, and it’s what cafes in Portugal hang in their window if their cakes are made on the premises. It’s also the name of a new book by Frederico Duarte, Rita João and Pedro Ferreira celebrating the neglected art of Portuguese confectionery, which it treats as a semi-industrial design product.

	Clay Ketter Clay Ketter was inspired to create Gulf Coast Slabs by a photograph that appeared in Time magazine shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck the southern USA in 2005. Instead of showing the flooded city of New Orleans, this image portrayed another devastated, burning community, and the exposed floor slabs of homes that had been, quite literally, blown away by the storm.

	Water Cube aquatic centre, Beijing Here's a photo essay by photographer Ben McMillan showing the building of Beijing's Water Cube aquatic centre, which opened this week.

	Shenzhen gallery We just came back from Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city of 13 million that barely existed 30 years ago.

	Bingo Mr Bingo is a London-based illustrator. This series of drawings uses a kitchen sink, a plastic bottle and a sieve to demonstrate how to use a TV and video recorder.

	Tom de Paor Tom de Paor is the Young Architect of the Year 2003. One of his ongoing works is the A13 Artscape project, a series of art and landscape interventions along the East London artery.

	David Levene David Levene is the first artist to be featured in the icon hang – our gallery section – with these unpublished images.

	Polly Braden Polly Braden spent last summer and autumn photographing people in London’s Square Mile. The capital’s financial heart can seem a heartless place – the steel, glass and stone monoliths of international banks and brokers overwhelm the City’s workers and tiny residential population.

	Frédéric Chaubin French photographer Frédéric Chaubin spent five years documenting the eccentric, lesser-known relics of communist architecture of the 1970s and 80s.

	Emma Rendel Emma Rendel sees weirdness behind everyday reality. After seeing her book The Awkwardists, we asked the Swedish-born illustrator to turn her warped and witty imagination to the design world.

	Stuart Haygarth Stuart Haygarth has created a photographic document of all the objects confiscated from the hand luggage of travellers flying out of Gatwick airport during a two-week period in April 2004.

	Maps by Artists Maps by artists fill the pages of this month’s icon hang. Maps are an increasingly common feature of artistic practice in the information-addicted early 21st century, as both representations

	Ai Yamaguchi Ai Yamaguchi is a young Japanese artist whose work creates a fictitious world based on the lives of female courtesans working in brothels during Japan’s Edo period (1600-1868 AD).

	Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer’s Tripoli fairground, in Lebanon, is a modernist ruin. One of his largest but least-known works, it has just been added to the list of 100 most endangered sites by the World Monuments Fund in response to plans to turn the site into a theme park.

	Bas Princen Bas Princen’s photographs seem to give the urban landscape a sense of order that is independent from man, and a life in which people are merely incidental or hapless participants. Princen, who trained as an architect, sees the pictures as constructing rather than recording space.

	David Shrigley David Shrigley describes his art as “funny drawings”. Published in 25 books to date, his drawings can be poignant, irreverent, surreal or just silly.

	Paul Freeman Paul Freeman has reversed the conventions of architectural photography (deep focus becomes shallow, correct perspective is turned to warping) for this series of images called I Remember The Future.