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WEBArchitecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design. Tucked away on a quiet side street in a leafy area of Helsinki, Alvar and Aino Aalto’s discreet suburban home demonstrates a beauty and practicality familiar from their better-known designs. Architecture. 28.08.24.
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic - ICON Magazine
WEBMar 30, 2020 — The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance and embodies its creator Mies van der Rohe’s famous maxim “less is more”. This distinctive chair was designed by modernist titan Mies in 1929 in collaboration with fellow German ...
A brief history of Comic Sans - ICON Magazine
WEBMar 6, 2020 — It felt casual and wasn’t easily associated with anything like newspaper fonts. Users gravitated towards its informal look. Comic Sans is one of the fonts favoured for use with people with dyslexia because of its wide letter-spacing and legibility. So love it or hate it, Comic Sans is here to stay. Often the butt of type-geek jokes, it is ...
10 buildings by Norman Foster - ICON Magazine
WEBMar 4, 2020 — The Bloomberg Building is impressive for it’s innovation and holistic approach to design. For example, rainwater and grey water from basins and showers is used to flush the toilets. The Bloomberg Building was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018. Millau Viaduct by Foster + Partners. Photo by Nigel Young.
Peter Märkli: An interview with the Zurich-based architect
WEBOct 10, 2008 — Peter Märkli gives Icon a lesson in the mathematics and grammar of architecture. “We don’t use numbers like 1, 3, 5, 7,” says Swiss architect Peter Märkli. “We prefer 2, 4, 8, 16 and things like that.”. Smelling faintly of cigarettes and sweeping his silvery fringe away from his face, he speaks slowly and carefully of the beauty of ...
The Museum of Art and Photography opens in Bangalore
WEBMay 4, 2023 — One of India’s most outstanding collections of South Asian art has been revealed with the recent opening of MAP Museum of Art & Photography, housed in a state-of-the-art building in South India’s capital city, Bangalore. Superstar, if not super-banal architects often announce their new buildings in rancid surfs of hyperbole.
Taikoo Li, Chengdu - ICON Magazine
WEBNov 9, 2015 — Taikoo Li, Chengdu. Architecture. 09.11.15. The retail mega-project shuns the sterile indoor mall in favour of a low-density streetscape and Make’s elegant brick hotel. Chengdu is China’s fourth largest city, with a population of 15 million, and among its richest. Its economic growth – as a high-tech gateway to the huge western provinces ...
Grafton Architects: ‘We see architecture as modified earth’
WEBJun 13, 2017 — Grafton’s founders believe, after all, that architecture’s responsibility is to ‘heighten difference and express the character of a place’, rather than bring it in line with some globalised idea of what great architecture should be. As Farrell says: ‘This building makes you feel you’re in Lima, not in any other part of the world.’.
A brief history of Brutalist social estate Thamesmead
WEBApr 8, 2020 — Thamesmead is a social housing estate built in the mid 1960s in outer Lnondon. It is situated on former marshland on the south of the Thames that was once part of the Woolwich Arsenal. When it was developed, the Thamesmead design offered a revolutionary city within a city, providing much needed affordable homes with parks and amenities, all ...
The photo finish - ICON Magazine
WEB28.10.14. Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the Beijing 2008 Olympic men’s 100m final. First used to expose corruption in horse racing, the eerie photographs taken by finish-line cameras have become the defining images of the world’s most dramatic races. Usain Bolt left his competitors trailing at the 100m sprint final of the 2008 ...
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