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10 of the most iconic buildings in Paris

Philharmonie de Paris. Photo by Guilhem Vellut  From the inside-out Pompidou Centre to a dazzling facades of the Philarmonie de Paris, we look at the

Architecture
Coronavirus and the City

Coronavirus and the City

Paris’ strict lockdown has seen the streets acquire an eerie quietude. As the Covid-19 pandemic turns seething metropoles into virtual ghost-towns, Joe Lloyd takes a

Opinion

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

Art Deco: Understanding the colourful movement

Art Deco had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s and was a modern interpretation of neoclassical style  Art Deco was popular in the 1920s

Design

France kicks off Notre Dame competition to rebuild cathedral’s spire

Notre Dame before the fire After Notre-Dame’s spire and roof were destroyed in a fire, plans to rebuild begin   The French Prime Minister Edouard

Architecture

Paris gets sparkling new fountains, designed by the Bouroullec brothers

Swarovski and Bouroullec brothers designed a new set of fountains for Paris. Photos by Bouroullec Studio Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed six fountains to appear

Design

CitizenM Hotel: affordable luxury at Gare de Lyon

CitizenM Hotel uses creative design to deliver lush interiors on a budget. Elizabeth Choppin checked it out. ‘Affordable luxury’ is the phrase on everyone’s lips

Architecture

Anne Lacaton, Lacaton & Vassal: “It is important to make buildings in which users find freedom”

The Paris-based architect talks to Icon’s Peter Smisek about doing more with less in the French banlieues We meet Anne Lacaton on a foggy winter

Architecture

Maison & Objet 2017: Rising Talents

The Parisian fair extended a friendly hand across the Channel last month with its focus on emerging British designers Six eminent designers (Ilse Crawford, Paul

Design

Highlights: Maison & Objet

January’s edition of the Parisian exhibition showed French designers in fine form, says Peter Smisek Visitor numbers at this year’s Maison & Objet have yet

Design

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Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

Colouring The Future

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

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

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

Arkitek & Noom 30: Redefining Professional Connection

OSWELL by INCLASS

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




Architects

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

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

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

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


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Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

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

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

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



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Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

Colouring The Future

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

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

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

Arkitek & Noom 30: Redefining Professional Connection

OSWELL by INCLASS

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