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Is postmodernism really worth saving?

The 1986 Big Bang led to an explosion of postmodernism in the City of London. Now these buildings are tumbling down, John Jervis asks: should

Architecture

New issue – Icon 156: Pomophobia

In our latest issue – out now – John Jervis argues that postmodernism has left London with a pretty turgid legacy, while Hugh Pearman looks

Opinion

Paul Shepheard: Playboy bunnies and nose-diving jets

Compared with the deconstructivist work of some of his fellow AA alumni, Shepheard’s pop-inflected compositions have left little impression on contemporary architectural culture. Charles Holland wonders

Opinion

Postmodernism in Finland

In the land of modernism, PoMo was always going to be on the margins – but that made it all the more unsettling, says Crystal

Opinion

Adhocism

There’s a maxim one occasionally hears in relation to Charles Jencks: “Always interesting, always wrong.” The point being that his omnivorous intellectual activity, despite greatly

Opinion

Postmodernism

The mood was set nicely. The busker in the subway that connects South Kensington underground station to the V&A was playing Rick Astley’s Never Gonna

Opinion

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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

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

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

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

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

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




Architects

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Atelier HA designs MELT’s new Panthéon restaurant in Paris

Vitra Water Garden

‘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

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This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York


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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

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

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

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

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

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

Finarte green rug

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles



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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

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

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

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

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

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