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The Swedish designers experimenting beyond Scandinavian norms

With Stockholm Design Week and the annual Stockholm Furniture Fair on hold this year, a new generation of Swedish studios is breaking the familiar rules

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Runda by NIKJOO x Flawk

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

Designed by Flawk in collaboration with London-based studio NIKJOO, Runda is a joyful, low-carbon home born from whimsical design features and an educational, community-focused approach

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Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

Across exhibitions, installations and a talks programme, the inaugural edition explored gentler ways of designing and inhabiting the world. Beneath its official theme slowness ran a

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How Poland’s economic boom is fuelling a design revolution

Poland is a country that’s growing in strength both economically and militarily. Increasingly, the nation’s new-found confidence can be discovered in its burgeoning design scene

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How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution

The seventh edition, held under the theme Fragments, took place earlier this month and proved to be one of the strongest to date. ICON travelled

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Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

Following Broken Nature in 2019, which tackled themes of sustainability, the international cultural institution spotlights the world’s growing inequalities with 24th International Exhibition Photography by Alessandro

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Meet Me Here exhibition by Spacon & X at Danish Architecture Center explores community and sense of place in a digital world

Copenhagen’s Danish Architecture Center has unveiled an immersive exhibition in collaboration with architecture firm Spacon & X, which highlights the value of third places Photography

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Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie celebrates Tuscan heritage and contemporary design

Vorno’s spectacular Villa Marie provides a rich architectural backdrop and open-air gallery feel for the first edition by Vestigia and Italian-Polish designer Jonathan Bocca Photography

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How do we define completeness in architecture? Build of Site examines the case for building on what’s already here

Curated by architect Søren Pihlmann, the Danish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale is a hybrid exhibition space and renovation site that offers visitors

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Lexus brings human-centred technology and cutting-edge design to this year’s Milan Design Week

From April 8-13, Lexus is showing a collection of interactive installations at Milan Design Week that bring its vision for the future of mobility to

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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

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Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days




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Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

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Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Runda by NIKJOO x Flawk

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

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How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

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MoDusArchitects completes contemporary Alpine home in Val di Non

Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way


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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Louis Poulsen Panthella

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days

Petite Friture reissues René Herbst’s landmark Sandows Collection



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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Louis Poulsen Panthella

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days