Chairless will be one of the talking points of Milan: it’s a chair with none of the attributes the word implies.

The idea behind Edificio Cruz del Sur’s arrowhead shape was “to liberate the ground”, say its designers, Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos.

One of South Africa’s most prominent young architects tells us about taking on the built and social legacy of apartheid. From icon’s Africa issue, out now.

The collected works of Herbert Muschamp, the last heavyweight architecture critic, is exhilarating.

The first time I saw the VitraHaus it was made of gingerbread

Seven new architecture books come under the microscope, covering topics from Cedric Price and planning to struts and situationists.

Istanbul may be 3,000 years old but it's newer than Los Angeles.

Win the chance to design the show apartment of Glenn Howells Architects’ new London development, Printworks.

Architects get playful and run amok in China’s precocious, heartless supercity – but how much can they do to overcome its alienating scale?

The defining definitions of the decade, compiled and composed by Edwin Heathcote, Sam Jacob, Ian Martin, Justin McGuirk and William Wiles.

Is speed an essential quality of the 21st-century museum? If the architect’s job is to oil the wheels of the culture industry, then perhaps it is. With Tate Modern getting 4 million visitors a year, you need to drive the culture-hungry through the pens quickly. But the museum is not traditionally a place of swift passage, it’s one of thoughtful wandering and edifying pauses

Design's angry lion sets the world to rights.

Conversation between designer Ronan Bouroullec and icon editor Justin McGuirk.

There’s no one like Reyner Banham today. Imagine a serious architecture critic writing a detailed analysis of crisps – their form, their packaging and the reasons why people assumed they weren’t fattening.

At Experimenta, one show promised a radical agenda. It got halfway, says Justin McGuirk.

The brothers on freedom, foxes and Dostoevsky.

Destruction was preservation at the new home of the Museum of Design and Fashion, or MUDE, in Lisbon.

"People don't trust design - they think it's shit"

Gio Ponti deserves to be remembered for many reasons but above all as a peculiarly Italian phenomenon.

It's difficult to think of the High Line without thinking of Joel Sternfeld's photographs of it in different seasons at the turn of this century.