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Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy. The Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, was the first museum in the United States designed by a living artist to show their own work, and reflects the diversity of his sculptural ...
BioCouture by Suzanne Lee - ICON Magazine
10.08.11. In its raw state it looks scarily like human skin,” says Suzanne Lee, the designer behind BioCouture – a research project to produce garments from textile biomaterials. Lee is speaking about bacterial cellulose, the material she has used since 2004 to create eco-friendly clothing for exhibitions and events.
Peter Märkli: An interview with the Zurich-based architect
Oct 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 ...
10 buildings by Norman Foster - ICON Magazine
Mar 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.
Serpentine Pavilions: best and worst - ICON Magazine
Jun 8, 2016 · 5. Zaha Hadid, 2000 and 2007. Zaha Hadid designed the first of the pavilions (above, top image) in 2000, before it was clear that it was going to be rolled out as an annual event. Her first London building, it was a simple geometric tent – angular and crystalline.
Philippe Starck's Ghost Chair: A modern classic based on a French ...
Feb 11, 2020 · The Louis Ghost chair by Philippe Starck for Kartell. Image courtesy of Kartell. Philippe Starck based the design for the translucent Ghost chair on a simple upholstered chair, made popular in the eighteenth century by French King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. His elegant design helped changed the perception …
Louis Kahn: The architect of complex, monumental buildings
Feb 11, 2020 · Louis Kahn is widely recognised as one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century, known for his monolithic concrete buildings built around the world. Throughout his career, which spanned the majority of the 20th century, Louis Kahn was fascinated by how buildings can be used to improve lives and create harmony.
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic - ICON Magazine
Mar 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 ...
From the Archive: A short history of the Sony Walkman
Nov 15, 2022 · In the late 1970s, Japaneseelectronics company Sony revolutionised the way we listen to music with its ultra-lightweight personal cassette tape player. The first every Walkman was designed for Sony’s co-founder Masaru Ibuka, who wanted to be able to listen to opera music on long flights and found that even the smallest of the personal audio ...
Can Public Practice shape how cities are built? - ICON Magazine
Apr 25, 2019 · Public Practice was started with the objective of bridging the divide between architects in private practice and public sector planners but has made no secret of having broader aims to shape how UK cities and housing are planned. ‘In just over a year we have seen more than 400 practitioners apply to join the programme,’ said Williams.