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Neue Nationalgalerie reopens after ‘surgical’ restoration by David Chipperfield

The iconic Berlin gallery designed by Mies van der Rohe underwent an extensive refurbishment which balanced conservation with future needs The Neue Nationalgalerie, the modernist

Architecture

Switzerland’s largest housing complex retrofitted

The listed modernist estate in Geneva underwent an 11-year ‘high-tech’ renovation that prioritises longevity and thermal performance Geneva-based Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés has completed the

Architecture

The high-tech, inside-out design of Richard Rogers

Three World Trade Center by Richard Rogers. Photo by JJBers Richard Rogers is one of the best known architects of the later 20th century, known

Architecture
Alvar Aalto: Finland’s most famous designer

Alvar Aalto: Finland’s most famous designer

Vyborg Library with furniture all designed by Alvar Aalto. Photo by Ninara via Flickr Finnish architect Alvar  Aalto was a well-known modernist whose style was

Architecture
Vorticism: A brief history of a brief movement

Vorticism: A brief history of a brief movement

  Vorticism was a short-lived radical art movement in Britain that celebrated urbanity and the age of the machine. Vorticism was a British avant-garde group

Design
More than 60 years on the Eames Chair is still a classic

More than 60 years on the Eames Chair is still a classic

A modern take on the nineteenth-century club chair, the Eames Lounge Chair has become a classic. The Eames lounge chair and its matching ottoman were

Design
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance

Design

The Louvre and its great glass pyramid

  Once a royal residence, the Louvre Museum’s palatial courtyard now centres around a crystalline glass pyramid The Louvre sits on the right bank of

Architecture

Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe

Why Mies van der Rohe’s final building is perhaps his most iconic. By Beatrice Galilee It was in Berlin that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began

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New Eileen Gray retrospective to open in New York next week

 Eileen Gray’s design for Boudoir de Monte Carlo 1923. Courtesy of Archives Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris Curator Cloé Pitiot speaks about the upcoming Eileen Gray

Design

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

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

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

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

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking

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

Vitra, the Eames Office and Herman Miller unveil a limited-edition design with Steinberg Cat

ICON 212 : Summer 2023




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

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking

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

Johannes Torpe Studios draw upon Italian and Japanese aesthetics to design new Copenhagen restaurant

Ladbroke Hall is reimagined as a meeting place for artistic expression

The must-see design and architecture events this spring

Lebond Watches collaborate with Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza on new minimalist watch

The Museum of Art and Photography opens in Bangalore

Trewhela Williams unveils its latest project within the Belsize Park Conservation Area of Primrose Hill


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Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

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

Vitra, the Eames Office and Herman Miller unveil a limited-edition design with Steinberg Cat

Swedish label Sandqvist collaborates with Emmely Elgersma to bring Nordic style to London

The must-see design and architecture events this spring

Lebond Watches collaborate with Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza on new minimalist watch

Danish label &Tradition celebrates Verner Panton’s legacy with the Flowerpot lamp


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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

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

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

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

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking

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

Vitra, the Eames Office and Herman Miller unveil a limited-edition design with Steinberg Cat

ICON 212 : Summer 2023