Rice planting at Wildside, Sue Bridge’s permaculture garden in Massachusetts. Image: Jono Neiger / Regenerative Design Group. Permaculture gardening seeks to make land more productive
Get a bitesize overview of the week’s headlines and events with Icon’s round-up SCENE POLITICAL DIVIDES After the Architects’ Journal published a snap poll showing
How the design of a building can help patients heal
Dunlevie Garden at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Photo by Tim Griffith Bringing nature into hospital design creates spaces that are non-institutional and fundamentally nurturing, says
Associative Design brings a Portuguese take on sustainable design to London Design Fair
Image: Associative Design Explore the best of Portuguese design at the London Design Fair At this year’s London Design Festival, much of the work looks
Royal College of Art graduates offer creative takes on modern challenges
Detail from Carlo Scanferlato’s works Among the range of innovative and beautiful designs at the Royal College of Art’s graduate shows in design, these projects stood
Stirling Prize winners launch Architects Declare, calling for action on climate change
Haworth Tompkins instigated the declaration. The practice won the Stirling in 2014 for the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins. Photo by Ruth W
Made Thought: “Sustainability in design has to be more than skin deep”
How London-based studio Made Thought incorporated sustainability and circularity into the core of their work, without sacrificing content or style. By Rita Lobo Sustainability,
