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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Icon 159: Herzog and de Meuron's Switch House at Tate Modern. As Tate Modern’s Switch House extension opens in London, we visit the monumental Herzog and de Meuron building and interview the gallery’s director Nicholas Serota. Why do albums by female singer-songwriters so often resort to bland, photoshopped portraits? Steve Hockett, director of Wonder Room Studio, proposes a more honest approach. First look: Nightingale your digital nurse. Hudson, New York. Henry Van...
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Icon 159: Herzog and de Meuron's Switch House at Tate Modern. Stirling Prize shortlist: ‘Underwhelming, neither too blingy nor particularly challenging’. Icon 158: Rio Olympics. The Serpentine Pavilion represents everything that’s wrong with high architecture today’. Serpentine Pavilions: best and worst. Icon 157: Pop modernism. New issue Icon 156: Pomophobia. Architects have an enormous responsibility to deliver places that last’. New issue Icon 155: Milan. Doughnut...
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. The Interlace: Singapore’s luxury…. Britten-Pears Archive by Stanton…. Welcome to ZHA World. The end of the high street. House K by Sou Fujimoto. Perfect Brute: São Paulo’s…. Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Pavilion…. St Louis Art Museum by David…. Tower House by Gluck. The Shed: experimental theatre. Capital Punishment: London on film. Future 50: Noura Al Sayeh. Future 50: Rachel Armstrong. Future 50: AT 103. Future 50: DUS Architects. Future 50: Keller Easterling. Icon Aw...
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Belval’s post-industrial identity crisis - Icon Magazine
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Belval’s post-industrial identity crisis. As the development of a former steel production district in Luxembourg into a business and cultural hub nears completion, Peter Maxwell reflects on previous efforts to regenerate industrial sites, arguing that human and creative engagement is more crucial to the success of such projects than token references to an area’s history. A few key elements of the infrastructure have been retained on site. Images: Le Fonds Belval.
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. New issue Icon 159: Twisted Sister. Available now, our latest issue explores Argentina's forgotten futurist and holds a Q&A with Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate. To the print magazine for only 24.99 (Overseas price options available online). Download the FREE Icon app. Available on the App Store, Google Play and Amazon Fire. Phone: 44 (0)20 3225 5200. James McLachlan, editor. John Jervis, deputy editor. Debika Ray, senior editor. Peter Smisek, junior editor.
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Herzog & de Meuron’s Nouveau Stade Bordeaux - Icon Magazine
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Herzog and de Meuron’s Nouveau Stade Bordeaux. The Swiss architect's latest stadium brings classical gentility to the world of football, but is still robust enough to withstand 42,000 fans. Images: Iwan Baan; Vigouroux Perspective. Stadiums are very important to us. You have a team, then you have a passion and you have a virus and when you have it, you don’t get rid of it. Herzog and De Meuron,. Tate Modern: Inside Switch House. Enter your message here. Zakka Goods a...
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Rome: The Museum of Ahhh! Icon of the Month. The Bierpinsel, Berlin. Icon of the Month. Towards a Typology of Mass Housing in the USSR. Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design. Manus x Machina at The Met. Studio Job Mad House. Eero Aarnio: Balls, bubbles and beyond. Beauty Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. High-Rise: 'Unregulated covetousness turns to licentiousness turns to criminal anarchy'. Last Futures by Douglas Murphy. Page 1 of 24. Zakka Goods and Things.
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Daniel Libeskind - Icon Magazine
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. A prolific architect and urbanist known for his ability to create sensitive and at times dramatic spaces that evoke cultural memory, the Polish-born Libeskind seeks out objects that do much the same. But I’ve fallen in love with Paulin’s work as a result. And I discovered the Ribbon chair in books, and I think it would look so good in the living room. The sofa needs a friend right now it’s next to this Mies lounge chair and it just looks a little anomalous. I’m very ...
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. Zaha Hadid’s Maritime Station, Salerno. Icon in conversation with Daniel Libeskind. Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, by OMA. Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility. Vertical Itaim, São Paulo, by Marcio Kogan. Leixões Ferry Terminal, Portugal. Lyon: Everything is illuminated. Taikoo Li, Chengdu. Shinjuku temple, Tokyo. Garage Museum by OMA. Bestor’s Blackbirds, Los Angeles. The lasting appeal of modernist Essex. Competition: Guess the building. Doughnut: The Outer London Festival.
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Vienna, the Pearl of the Reich - Icon Magazine
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Icon of the Month. Icon of the Month. 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. Vienna, the Pearl of the Reich: Planning for Hitler. Until 17 August 2015. Above: The City Plan of Vienna in the Year 3000, carnival party in the Künstlerhaus, 1933. Images: Archiv Künstlerhaus; collection Architekturzentrum Wien. Rome: The Museum of Ahhh! Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility. Is sound the forgott...
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