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Who is Bjarke Ingels?

Who is Bjarke Ingels?

BIG’s Serpentine Pavilion, which stacks numerous repeating units, is characteristic of the firm’s designs. Image: George Rex / Creative Commons. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels heads

Architecture

Rem Koolhaas and AMO offer a biennial of the new non-urban economy

AMO’s selection of unique and highly specific conditions distributed over the globe serves as a framework for their research. Image: Courtesy of OMA. Although guilty

Architecture

Industry News and Events for the weekend – 21 February

AMO’s ambitious research-led exhibition Countryside, The Future opens at the Guggenheim, New York. Photograph: Laurien Ghinitoiu. Courtesy AMO. Get a bitesize overview of this week’s

Architecture
Casa de Musica Philippe Ruault copy

Rem Koolhaas: Anti-architect or visionary?

 Casa de Musica in Porto. Photo by Philippe Ruault Controversial architect Rem Koolhaas is as much a creator of ideas as he is buildings Called

Architecture

OMA’s Blox on the Copenhagen skyline

BLOX by OMA on the Copenhagen harbour. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani/Marco Cappelletti OMA’s hulking ‘city in a box’ on the Copenhagen harbourfront has been given

Architecture

ICON 181: Wooden rollercoasters, OMA, the new Qatar, and much more

In this issue: Wooden rollercoasters ride again; Brut, the melancholic design collective, Design Indaba 2018; and much more   A word from ICON deputy editor

Opinion

Fondazione Prada: Rem Koolhaas’s sculptural white-concrete tower is finally open

The new Prada Foundation tower by OMA.  Milan had to wait a long time for its own contemporary art museum, but OMA’s Prada Foundation – now

Architecture

Long live the starchitect!

Peter Smisek on why this much-maligned group matters, and should continue to No one likes being called a starchitect. Especially anyone who, by all accounts,

Opinion

Exclusive: OMA on the European Union

The Dutch architecture practice is designing a Brexit installation for the opening of London’s Design Museum. Partner-in-charge Reinier de Graaf reflects on how the practice’s

Opinion

Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, by OMA

This city hall pixellates local government, splitting its many functions into a mass of grey-glass cubes, which hold the possibility of endless reconfiguration Easy to

Architecture

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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Quiet Design: How Luxury Brands Are Redefining Power Through Restraint

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era




Architects

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

The newly opened Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como is a playground for audiophiles

How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution

Architects join forces to design birdhouse project for charity auction at Christie’s

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

Architectural practice Local Local unveils a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Athens

Archikon Architects uses prefabricated panel structure to build Hungary’s first smart kindergarten


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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects


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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Quiet Design: How Luxury Brands Are Redefining Power Through Restraint

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era