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Posts tagged 'Oscar Niemeyer'

Sérgio Bernardes

Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil A documentary explores the radical designs that made Brazilian modernist, playboy and Niemeyer contemporary Sérgio Bernardes a star

Opinion

Rebel Architecture

Yasmeen Lari outside a women’s centre in Sindh, Pakistan. It is built on stilts to withstand floods Al Jazeera’s documentary series adopts a wide definition

Opinion

Beyond the Supersquare

After Clara Porset and Xavier Guerreiro, by Fernanda Fragateiro, 2013 Claire Barliant salutes a brave and overdue attempt to unravel the legacy of modernist architecture

Opinion

United Nations Redesign

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,

Design

Six of the Best: Vicky Richardson

  Vicky Richardson is director of the British Council Department of Architecture, Design and Fashion since 2010, Richardson was formerly a magazine editor and writer.

Design

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli

Oscar Niemeyer’s International Fair in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, was intended as the foundation of a new city quarter, but civil war intervened and it was

Architecture

Icon Magazine

“Icon” is not a word to be used lightly on these pages but, on the occasion of our hundredth issue, somehow it seemed appropriate Icon

Design

Centro Niemeyer by Oscar Niemeyer

Centro Niemeyer is a new cultural centre for the port city of Avilés in northern Spain, designed by the 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Occupying

Architecture

Brasilia

Oscar Niemeyer’s National Museum of the Republic, Brasilia, with his cathedral, left (image: Cristobal Palma) A city can work as a city and as a

Design

Sensate

Airborne Snotty Vase: Pollinosis, by Marcel Wanders, 2001 (image: © Marcel Wanders) A show that blurs body, furniture and space unnerves and delights Tania Ketenjian

Opinion

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Architects

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

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

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

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

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026


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This new lighting system celebrates exposed architectural details

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

WATCH: Kohler Cocktail Party at Milan Design Week 2026

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks

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

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week



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This new lighting system celebrates exposed architectural details

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

WATCH: Kohler Cocktail Party at Milan Design Week 2026

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks

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

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

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

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now