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Posts tagged 'Douglas Murphy'

Douglas Murphy: ‘The fire at Grenfell Tower is a tragedy that should change everything’

Icon’s architecture correspondent identifies four major questions that will need to be addressed in the wake of last week’s disaster Two disasters at the turn

Opinion

Stirling Prize shortlist: ‘Underwhelming, neither too blingy nor particularly challenging’

Douglas Murphy asks what this year’s line-up for the prestigious award says about the state of British architecture Architecture is rarely a subject that makes

Opinion

#BRUTALISM

The brute is back – on television, on social media, in coffee-table books, even in new buildings. But can we ever recapture the movement’s original

Architecture

Last Futures by Douglas Murphy

They may have been failures, beset by naivety, contradictions and political opposition, but revisiting the experimental structures of the 1960s and 70s is more than

Opinion

London School of Architecture

Will Hunter’s new postgraduate course is both a reaction to and an outcome of the progressive marketisation of UK higher education, says Icon’s architecture correspondent Douglas

Opinion

Rijksmuseum: Last year’s Interior of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Design

Robbrecht and Daem: Last year’s Architecture Practice of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Architecture

Elemental: Centro Innovacion, Santiago

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena‘s practice turns corporate design on its head by creating a business innovation lab with the windows on the inside We’re very aware

Architecture

Allianz headquarters in Zurich by Wiel Arets

The building  is clad in glass etched to appear as onyx (image: Jan Bitter) The Dutch architect’s latest building in Switzerland, a headquarters for an insurance

Architecture

Glasgow School of Art – Mackintosh’s masterpiece

As firefighters battle to save the beloved art school, we revisit a piece by Douglas Murphy, in which he describes its significance The fire at the

Architecture

Editor's choice

Chun-Li Reid’s YouTube series, Cooking With An Architect, links space and taste

Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

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

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

Archaeology of the Future

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

ICON 213 : Autumn 2023

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Iris Ceramica Group




Architects

Chun-Li Reid’s YouTube series, Cooking With An Architect, links space and taste

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

Bunn Studio draws on the classic virtues of Danish design for new Garde Hvalsøe showroom

What is the possible endgame for The Line, one of the most viral and controversial architectural projects?

Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects by András Szántó

How recycled hospital equipment is transformed into a plastic pavilion designed for inhospitable climates

The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city

Copenhagen-based research and design lab SPACE10 explores the building blocks of future homes that give back

Visual artist Michal Zahornacky’s drone photographs make reality look like fiction


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Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

Why brand space needs pace: what we can learn from the art of filmmaking

Arina Shokouhi, the designer of the Ecovado, believes that experimenting should begin at home

Bryan O’Sullivan Studio launches first collection of furniture, lighting and objects

British designer Faye Toogood on creating contemporary classics

Design Icon: The Fiat Nuova Cinquecento brought driving to the Italian masses

US-based surface innovator Kaijie Chen talks tech and visual artistry


Videos

Chun-Li Reid’s YouTube series, Cooking With An Architect, links space and taste

Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

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

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

Archaeology of the Future

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

ICON 213 : Autumn 2023

Iris Ceramica Group – thank you for submitting your RSVP

Iris Ceramica Group