This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by French architect Jean Nouvel, was unveiled yesterday in London’s Hyde Park.

Design revolution is at the top of the agenda in icon 086, the August issue, which is in shops now. Jerszy Seymour and Gaetano Pesce, representatives of two different decades of radical design, set the world to rights in an incendiary conversation, and there's much else besides.

Forecasting how the weather influences architecture is, of course, unpredictable, says Steve Parnell.

Designer Ross Lovegrove was the quiz master at the second icon and Iittala pub quiz at the Book Club in London.

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, east London design studio Campaign has designed a foldaway bookshop in Soho.

Moscow unveils a radical architecture and design school.

It’s rare that a building looks like nothing else of its kind, but “La Trufa” by Anton Garcia-Abril and Ensamble Studio is one such work.

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

Eindhoven-based designer Mike Thompson has created a hanging lamp powered by algae

Last week, some of the world's leading architects and designers gathered in Belgrade for three days of talks. Icon was there.

The Spun chair was shown by Magis during the Milan furniture fair, but it started life as a limited edition piece at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London.

There's a whole heap of good things in the July icon, issue 085, now in shops - and top of the pile is Sou Fujimoto’s stacked up houses in Tokyo.