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Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games

30 years ago, Deborah Sussman's "look" for the 1984 Olympics turned LA into a sporting carnival. Bright, brash and full of optimism, here are some posters and photographs from the event

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23.12.14

The Icon Awards took place on 4 December|St Mary’s Church, Marylebone, made a grand venue for the night’s celebrations|The trophies on display|Emerging design studio winners Bernadette Deddens and Tetsuo Mukai of Study O Portable, with designer of the year Martino Gamper (centre)|Jay Osgerby accepts the furniture design of the year prize for the Bodleian Libraries Chair|Architecture practice of the year, OMA|Guests celebrated with bespoke cocktails and live music|Socially responsible design winners, Peek Vision||Left to right: (Left to right): Trophy maker Anton Alvarez, designer of the year Martino Gamper, and Icon editor Christopher Turner|Studio Myerscough enjoying the party|Study O Portable were named Emerging Design Studio of the Year|Martino Gamper scooped the award for Design Studio of the Year|The Icon team at the party|Attendees were entertained by live music||Icon editor Christopher Turner announced the awards|Emerging architecture practice of the year, Assemble|||

The 2014 Icon Awards party

Jay Osgerby, Martino Gamper and Study O Portable were among the designers who attended the awards ceremony on 4 December. Here is a selection of photos from the night

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15.12.14

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 2013|Durslade Perennial Meadow, 2012|Durslade Perennial Meadow, 2012|Durslade Cloister, 2012|Planting Design for the Perennial Garden at Durslade Farm, September 2012|Planting Design for the Monroe Garden, Lurie Garden, Chicago, 2001|Eastern Railyards Phase 1, Grassland Buffer, 2012||

The landscape designer was named Icon of the Year in our 2014 awards. Here is a selection of his drawings, including those of the swirling meadow of perennial grasses and plants for Hauser & Wirth's gallery in Somerset, the High Line and the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion

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05.12.14

Jim's Terrible City: JG Ballard's Shanghai

James H Bollen's book of photographs depicts the cityscape of empty, dilapidated houses and apartments and the leitmotifs that influenced the novelist's work

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11.11.14

Le Corbusier – Villa La Roche|Alvar Aalto – Munkkiniemi|Antoni Gaudí – Casa Batlló Barcelona|Daniel Libeskind – Felix Nussbaum Museum|Charles and Ray Eames – Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|FL Wright – Fallingwater, Pennsylvania|Frank Gehry – The Dancing House|Jean Nouvel – Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris|Jean Prouvè – Prouvè House, Nancy, France|Louis Kahn – Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, California|Mies van der Rohe – German Pavilion Barcelona|Norman Foster – 30 St Mary Axe London|Oscar Niemeyer – Le Volcan at the Maison de la Culture du Havre|Rem Koolhaas – House Life Bordeaux|Toyo Ito – Mikimoto Ginza2 Tokio|Walter Gropius – Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany|Zaha Hadid – Issam Fares Institute Beirut||

Archiwindow by Federico Babina

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

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20.10.14

Overall winner: Mask of Society by Marius Veith|Asia-Pacific winner: Net Mending by Ly Hoang Long|EMEA winner: Dancing in the Street by Carlos da Costa Branco|Americas winner: Buffer Zone by Johanna Siegmann|Symmetry by Antonio Hernondez Santana|Nappers by Aron Suveg|Late Night Dinner by Chris Jongkind|Morning by Cymbie Yan|Abbey Road by Ivana Hengl|Outside the Bakery by Lluis Salvado|An Exhibition by Manuel Paz Castanal|Market Madness by Nicola Young||Alley Check by Ross Magrath|Sewage Worker by Sujan Sarkar|Trimming by Tadishi Onishi|13-15 winner: Sarah Scarborough A Distant Silhouette|16-25 winner: Szabolcs Simo Christmas Tram||

Urban Photographer of the Year 2014

German photographer Marius Vieth has clinched this year's title for his image, Mask of Society

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13.10.14

Nadav Kander: Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic), Chongqing Municipality, 2006|Nadav Kander: Chongqing XI, Chongqing Municipality, 2007|Bas Princen: Mokattam Ridge, (Garbage Recycling City), Cairo, 2009|Bas Princen: Cooling Plant, Dubai, 2009|Guy Tillim: Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008|Guy Tillim: Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008|Luigi Ghirri: Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena; the ossuary in winter, 1986|Simon Norfolk: Former Soviet-era Palace of Culture, Kabul, 2001 - 02. Courtesy of Simon Norfolk|Simon Norfolk: A security guard's booth at the newly restored Ikhtiaruddin citadel, Herat, 2010 - 2011|Thomas Struth: Clinton Road, London, 1977|Julius Shulman: Case Study House #22, 1960 (Architect: Pierre Koenig)|Julius Shulman: Case Study House #22, 1960 (Architect: Pierre Koenig)|Iwan Baan: Torre David #2, Caracas, Venezuela, 2011|Iwan Baan Torre David #10, Caracas, Venezuela, 2011|Stephen Shore: Holden Street, North Adams, Massachusetts, July 13, 1974, 1974|Walker Evans: Atlanta, Georgia. Frame Houses and a Billboard, 1936||

Constructing Worlds

An exhibition at the Barbican presents photographs that captured seminal moments in 20th and 21st-century architecture. Here are some of the works on display

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03.10.14

Anri Sala: Le Clash (2010)|Anri Sala: Tlatelolco Clash (2011)|Anri Sala: Tlatelolco Clash (2011)|Gillian Wearing: Bully (2010)|Pierre Huyghe: A Way in Untilled (2012-13)|Willem de Rooij - Vuurtoren bij Westkapelle (1872-1944) by Piet Mondrian, as part of his installation|Manfred Pernice: Plateau_Cassette (Fontainebleau)||

The Vincent Award

The shortlisted artists for the Vincent Award for European contemporary art are now showing their work at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague

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02.10.14

Mount Kumgang Big Tree hotel|West Sea Barrage hotel|Woodland retreat|Silk co-operative spinning resort|Birds Nest riverside guesthouse|Mr Kumgang Birds Nest Villa|Mountain conicals|Mount Myohyang tourism bridge, Diamond Mountains|A design for a flying house||

North Korea: Visions of Escape

Commissions for Utopia, an exploration of ideas for sustainable tourism in North Korea, was among the exhibits on display at the Golden Lion-winning South Korean pavilion at the Venice Biennale