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Urban Sun installation claims to ‘clean’ public spaces of coronavirus

Aimed at enabling outdoor gatherings, the Studio Roosegaarde project cites scientific research into the sanitising effects of far-UVC light Words by Francesca Perry In the

Design

New launches from Stockholm Design Week and Furniture Fair

Minimalism reigns at the annual furniture and lighting fair in the Swedish capital In the face of a maximalist movement, the furniture and lighting fair

Design

Why LEDs are not our lighting saviour

The design possibilities are endless and the sustainability credentials impeccable, but they give our homes as much warmth as a hospital ward, argues Max Fraser

Design

Tom Dixon’s Mirror Ball Pendant light

  John Jervis looks at the design that propelled Tom Dixon to world domination – and earned him the grudging admiration of his peers Tom

Design

Light artist Leo Villareal on making London’s bridges sparkle during Illuminated River

Cosmos, Cornell University, Ithaca (2012) – a homage to the astronomer Carl Sagan London’s bridges set to light up as art project Illuminated River takes

Design

Cities switch on to a new era of smart lighting

Lighting companies are offering sophisticated systems that control outputs across large urban spaces. Could it transform the way we experience cities? Los Angeles Street Lighting.

Architecture

Challenging conventional lighting to bring the outside in

Light Cognitive’s systems’s are designed to mimic outdoor lighting Conventional indoor lighting may provide light that enables us to extend our days ways that were

Design

Bellhop: The pioneering battery-powered lamp by Barber & Osgerby

All photos: Germano Borrelli ‘There comes a point in the life of a product where technology makes things possible,’ says Edward Barber, one half of

Design

How to be creative: thinking sideways

Nulty lighting in ‘Graffiti Tunnel’ in Leake Street Arches, Waterloo Guest blog: Nulty‘s Daniel Blaker looks back at ways people have found to ‘think outside

Opinion

Flos: Van Duysen masterminds new Light+Building stand

Flos stand at Light+Building Frankfurt. Photo: C41 Studio Flos debuts new architectural and outdoor lines in Van Duysen authored space in Light+Building 2018, in Frankfurt.

Design

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

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

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage




Architects

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

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

The Third Space in Udaipur, India, is a community space that mixes old and new

An island park in central Copenhagen showcases the plants of the world

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

The 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


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

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage

Introducing House of Icon at Design London Shoreditch

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


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

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

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage