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Posts tagged 'Urbanism'

Is China finally ditching the mega mall?

Xintiandi, home to a two-week design festival at this year’s Design Shanghai, laid the ground for a new wave of developments that mix retail, cafes

Architecture

Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility

  The architect talks to Peter Smisek about how transport will shape the cities of the future, and why total connectivity might not be as

Architecture

Shenzhen Biennale

The architecture and urbanism festival calls for an end to the relentless churn of construction and challenges our thinking about city-making, but does it offer

Opinion

‘China is the world’s greatest urban experiment’

Ahead of the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture next week, the event’s co-curator, Alfredo Brillembourg of architecture practice Urban Think Tank, explains the continuing

Opinion

‘Cities are the solution, not the problem’

Dytopian visions of our urban future ignore the progress being made by well-designed and well-managed cities in tackling social and environmental problems, argues the director

Opinion

‘It’s all very tribal’ – Donna Loveday on the Cycle Revolution

We spoke to the Design Museum curator ahead of an exhibition, opening today, that looks at the lifestyles, motives and attitudes of cyclists in Britain

Design

Reclaiming the streets

From Bogota to Bristol, policymakers and community groups are devising creative ways to break the stranglehold that cars have over city roads, says Peter Murray

Opinion

Vienna, the Pearl of the Reich

An unflinching exhibition uncovers how the city’s architects collaborated in a frenzy of Nazi urban planning, writes Laura Snoad Totalitarian regimes, the Nazis included, tend

Opinion

Chmara.Rosinke: Nomads in residence

Polish duo Maciej Chmara and Ania Rosinke moved to Austria as students, stayed “by coincidence” and have made their home in Vienna. But their work,

Design

A laboratory for Mexico City

In Mexico City, Gabriella Gomez-Mont’s team is reimagining the megalopolis, with the help of video-game developers, robot designers and the city’s many informal communities. Icon

Architecture

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Architects

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SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

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


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

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future