Ryue Nishizawa has brought the outside indoors to create several new “worlds” in which to showcase the art work of a Japanese master.

A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Commissioners’ Plan for New York, now 200 years old, as a revolutionary document and a metaphor for openness

French designers Thibault Zimmerman and Lucie Thomas (Zim & Zou) made Icon a neon-coloured paper hamburger for issue 104: The Future of Food. We had to settle on just one shot for the cover, but you can see more photos of their incredible paper-craft creation by clicking here.

Fuse Atelier’s sculptural house on a narrow site makes clever use of cantilevered upper rooms to create a surprisingly large interior.

The February issue of Icon is devoted to ‘Food’. We look at the overlooked world of food design – why are there Alessi jugs and Starck lemon squeezers in MoMA’s design collection, but no Kinder Surprise eggs? – and at the architects and designers who ask important questions about why industrially produced food looks the way it does.

January marks a bright start to the year in design and architecture. Icon look forward to the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Biennale, Jerszy Seymour at the Vitra Design Museum, IMM Cologne and Maison & Objet, a display of artists’ zines at London’s ICA and a conceptual exhibition on recycling at MAXXI in Rome.

Daniel Libeskind drives a steel wedge through a museum and the heart of German history.

The Icon team are taking a break over the festive period but we'll be back in 2012 to bring you more of the very best in international design, architecture and culture. Happy holidays!

Preston Scott Cohen’s elegant extension to the Israeli city’s museum of art has a modest facade that veils a complex and dramatic interior.

The dingy packages, parcels and envelopes of the Royal Mail get a makeover, to make the experience of visiting a post office almost as exciting as receiving a letter – even if the actual post office remains the same.

In this, the fourth in our series of exclusive previews of the OMA in Conversation series, Reinier de Graaf, speaks about the difficulties of building in London.

From land mines to financial crises, this year’s batch of graduates has taken a step away from the conceptual to tackle real-life problems.