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Wild seeds of an edible landscape

Wild seeds of an edible landscape

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

Architecture

10 buildings by Norman Foster

London City Hall by Foster + Partners. Photo by Nigel Young Here’s a look at 10 of the most recognisable buildings by Norman Foster, widely

Architecture

Industry news and events – 20 December 2019

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

Design

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

Opinion

To tackle the climate emergency, building with wood needs to go mainstream

Inside the Green House project in Cambridge Heath. Photo by Jim Stephenson Timber construction is quick, clean and easy – and is one of the

Opinion
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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

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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

Design

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

Architecture

London Craft Week: Makers showcase their work across the capital

  London Craft Week is back in the capital to share the work of makers from across the spectrum of craft and creativity London Craft

Design

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,

Design

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ICON 215 : Spring/ Summer 2024

Sabine Marcelis adds a colourful touch to the VitraHaus Loft

Enter Dezeen Awards 2024 now!

RAD DESIGN 2024: Romania’s new collectible design fair opens its doors this month

Caon Design Office partners with Woolmark to unveil a circular aircraft seating concept

Five Highlights from Milan Design Week 2024

James Bantone teams up with UGG at this year’s Milan Design Week

The second edition Hospitality Innovation Summit Saudi Arabia & UAE by GBB Venture marks a new measure of excellence

ICON launches its inaugural digital Milan Design Week 2024 Guide




Architects

Architecture Icon: The post-war designs of Yrjö and Irmeli Kukkapuro live on in their unique home studio

Atelier L’Abri completes silver-clad house in forested hills of Canadian Laurentians

Photographer Ruben Hughes shares how he captures the streets of New York and Copenhagen

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

House Dokka combines simple geometry and natural materials to create a home that resembles a floating treehouse

Makhno Studio’s Gnizdo houses seamlessly blend tradition and futurism

This new eco-conscious hotel concept in the Trosa archipelago draws a discerning crowd

Clément Cividino’s restoration of a 1960s fibreglass pod by Nikolaos Xasteros lands in the Spanish countryside

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy


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Sabine Marcelis adds a colourful touch to the VitraHaus Loft

RAD DESIGN 2024: Romania’s new collectible design fair opens its doors this month

Caon Design Office partners with Woolmark to unveil a circular aircraft seating concept

Five Highlights from Milan Design Week 2024

James Bantone teams up with UGG at this year’s Milan Design Week

ICON launches its inaugural digital Milan Design Week 2024 Guide

Meet interior designer Matt McKay as he discusses the inspiration behind the launch of his new furniture collection

TAKT is rethinking the way we design, build and sell furniture with its simple self-assembly furniture

From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen


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ICON 215 : Spring/ Summer 2024

Sabine Marcelis adds a colourful touch to the VitraHaus Loft

Enter Dezeen Awards 2024 now!

RAD DESIGN 2024: Romania’s new collectible design fair opens its doors this month

Caon Design Office partners with Woolmark to unveil a circular aircraft seating concept

Five Highlights from Milan Design Week 2024

James Bantone teams up with UGG at this year’s Milan Design Week

The second edition Hospitality Innovation Summit Saudi Arabia & UAE by GBB Venture marks a new measure of excellence

ICON launches its inaugural digital Milan Design Week 2024 Guide