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Posts tagged 'Charles Holland'

Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics

Detail of ceramic tiles designed for the House for Essex by Grayson Perry. Photo by Jack Hobhouse A new exhibition at the Building Centre showcases

Opinion

When architecture becomes art

Now open to the public, architect Konstantin Melnikov’s Moscow home was at the heart of a bitter ownership dispute that pitted its use as a

Opinion

Turncoats: Ornament is Crime is Crime

A mash-up of architecture debate and comedy panel show proved a refreshing format, though the audience was slow to get in the spirit, reports Peter

Opinion

‘Essex, it turns out, is a hotbed of modernist experimentation’

Beyond the A13, the staid seaside towns and the flat, muddy fields of its heartland lies an alternative Essex – an unlikely hotbed of radical

Architecture

The trouble with bridges

Spanning a river was once an exercise in elegance and beauty, but today’s bridges express nothing but their own structural virtuosity. Bridge design, it seems,

Design

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

Charles Holland enjoys a Pynchonesque novel set in the world of branding and “corporate anthropology” – with a suspiciously Koolhaas-like main character To start with,

Opinion

The architecture of London Zoo

The history of London Zoo’s architecture is a record of our changing attitudes to nature and animal welfare, as grand aesthetic statements have been replaced

Architecture

Icon 140: Zoos

Our new issue, out on 8 January, features Bernard Tschumi’s updated Parc Zoologique de Paris, Bjarke Ingels’s human zoo and Charles Holland’s musings on modernism

Opinion

Slacklands by Corinna Dean

Britain’s recent past is illuminated by a survey of some of its bleakest rural buildings, finds Charles Holland In recent years, there has been a

Opinion

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

Less an architect, more a stage manager of buildings and gardens, Kent’s mastery of artifice defined an age William Kent (1685-1748) was one of the

Opinion

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Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK




Architects

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design


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How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs


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Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK