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MAD Architects creates Beijing kindergarten with colourful roof playscape

The YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten wraps around a historic 18th-century courtyard and stimulates intergenerational integration MAD Architects has completed a large-scale kindergarten project in Beijing with

Architecture

ICON 177: The global politics of Chinese eco-cities, Ou Ning, Shanghai deco, propaganda posters and the V&A in Shenzhen

Following an irritable European tour last year in which President Trump questioned the United States’ role in Nato and, perhaps more significantly, pulled the US

Opinion

Of mountains and water: Ma Yansong’s Shanshui City

Mad Architects draws on traditional Chinese painting and sensitivity to landscape to realise two contrasting landmark projects In 2015, at the age of 40, Ma

Architecture

Ordos Museum by MAD Architects

The Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia, designed by MAD Architects, has reached completion. The structure, located in a desert city in the northern Chinese autonomous

Architecture

Profile: Ma Yansong

In many ways, Ma Yansong is a perfect symbol for the current period in architecture. Building massive projects all across the globe, he presides over

Architecture

Profile: Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson has built a small empire in a former factory in Berlin’s arty Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood. The red-brick building takes up the whole block

Architecture

Feelings Are Facts

Thick smoke and multi-coloured lights make up the installation Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong’s smoke-filled room in Beijing sends Johanna Agerman on a journey of

Opinion

Ma Yansong’s Hutong Bubble

Hutong Bubble 32 looms over the rooftops A strange new presence has popped up in the Nan Luo Gu Xiang section of Beijing. Its form

Architecture

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Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

The Galerie Nationale du Design: a new landmark institution

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles

KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture

Editor’s Picks: Our highlights from Lake Como Design Festival 2026

Antao Earth from Villeroy & Boch: Where material and finish become the key design principles




Architects

Atelier HA designs MELT’s new Panthéon restaurant in Paris

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

Open House Festival opens hundreds of London buildings this September

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion


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Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles

KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture

Editor’s Picks: Our highlights from Lake Como Design Festival 2026

Panter&Tourron unveils cosmic-themed window displays for Hermès

The art of Italian living: Marelli arrives in Shoreditch



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Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

The Galerie Nationale du Design: a new landmark institution

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles

KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture

Editor’s Picks: Our highlights from Lake Como Design Festival 2026

Antao Earth from Villeroy & Boch: Where material and finish become the key design principles