Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker: British planners with focus on function over form
Parker and Unwin’s original plan of Letchworth Garden City, 1904. After reading about social housing architect Peter Barber on Icon 179, one reader felt compelled
A trend for archive pieces has emerged at Clerkenwell Design Week, as industry stalwarts such as Vitra, Cassina and SCP unearth and update former successes and
An exhibition in Victoria is a thought-provoking exploration of the links between art and design in an incongruous setting The area surrounding Victoria station in
Cabanon, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 1951; recreation of the interior (image: Jonathan Muziker) MoMA presents a compelling case, says Claire Barliant, for seeing Le Corbusier as a lover,
It took a team of 11 leading architects to create the United Nations headquarters in 1952. The assemblage of sculptural forms on Manhattan’s east side,
Tokyo’s metabolists, like London’s Archigram and Paris’ situationists, are one of those conjunctions of energy, talent and idealism of the 1960s that can make the
Hainburg, the most easterly town in Austria, has recently become home to a new Protestant church designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au. The Martin Luther Church sits
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