Get a bitesize overview of the week’s headlines and events with Icon’s round-up

Why are we still enthralled by yesterday’s radicals? Because today’s visions of the future are so dull, writes Jay Merrick

A little inspiration from our archives – some of our favourite interviews with female architects and designers over the years

January’s edition of the Parisian exhibition showed French designers in fine form, says Peter Smisek

The first ever RIBA International Prize celebrates the best of global architecture

The first Zaha Hadid project to be completed since her death is, like much of her best work, both alien and part of the landscape, write Stefano Boeri and Mario Coppola

In our latest issue – out now – John Jervis argues that postmodernism has left London with a pretty turgid legacy, while Hugh Pearman looks back at the greatest hits (and misses) of the inimitable Zaha Hadid

Edwin Heathcote remembers the ‘eye-wateringly original’ work of the celebrated architect, who died on 31 March

Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin
Until 21 September 2015

Mainland China's first international design fair wrapped up its second edition last month, with more than 300 brands showing their products

Architects may not employ the migrant workers building their grand designs in the Gulf states, but their names lend credibility to those that do. With appalling conditions still rife in the region, human-rights groups are demanding that practices stand up to their paymasters

The architect has made clever use of an awkward site at a university to create the Jockey Club Innovation Tower, an undulating glass structure full of fluid, interconnected spaces. John Jervis went to have a look

RISD Museum, Rhode Island
24 April – 2 August 2015

Designers of mega-projects in Abu Dhabi should use their influence to push for better conditions for migrant workers, Human Rights Watch says to Icon as it reveals continuing exploitation on luxury Saadiyat Island development

Our March issue, available from 1 February, asks what architects could do to alleviate the suffering of refugees in Syria and migrant workers in the Gulf states, as well as examining the role of design in the building of protest camps

Design Museum, London
25 March – 23 August 2015

Twenty-six women have contributed outfits to this Zaha Hadid-designed show about the empowering effects of fashion. But the clothes seem somewhat meaningless without their wearer or context, finds Riya Patel

Le Corbusier, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are among the architects featured as silhouettes in the graphic designer's latest illustrations