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Entrepôt Macdonald

Under OMA’s masterplan, 15 star architects have reinvented Paris’s longest building as a gargantuan groundscraper – a new city district behind a riot of competing

Architecture

Selling Scandinavia

Paris auction house Artcurial launched its pioneering sales of classic Scandinavian design last year, but has the trend for Nordic collectibles peaked before it even got

Design

Rue de Lourmel

TVK Architectes’ development forges a strong sense of identity out of an eclectic range of styles and functions – from a crèche to an old

Architecture

Paris goes grand

The expanding boundaries of the French capital are providing fertile ground for top architects, writes David Michon Come 1 January 2016, the Métropole du Grand

Opinion

Inga Sempé: No art, no stories

Inga Sempé is not an artist. She does not want her works to be preserved in a museum, and dislikes the idea of a design

Design

Bernard Tschumi’s Paris zoo

The venerable Parc Zoologique de Paris has been redeveloped to provide larger, more natural habitats for its 1,000 residents. But architects Bernard Tschumi and Jacqueline

Architecture

Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation

The meeting of two creators of luxury objects in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris has resulted in a suitably extravagant, and sometimes exquisite, art

Architecture

Highlights: Maison et Objet

Icon noticed a focus on the handmade and the humorous at the interior design trade show in Paris earlier this month. Here are some products

Design

André Sauvage

In the 1920s and early 30s, there was a fortuitous collision: cities soared upwards and outwards and silent film reached its apogee, before sound came

Opinion

National Archives of France by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas

(image: Philippe Rualt) Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’s aluminium-clad store for 180km of state papers is inevitably imposing, but manages to retain a human scale. The

Architecture

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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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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