The 2026 Serpentine Pavilion references England’s serpentine walls and the surrounding garden landscape through a porous ...

The emerging London-based architecture studio has reworked a modernist house set within the South Downs National Park.

Designed by Flawk and NIKJOO, Runda is a joyful, low-carbon home born from whimsical design and a community-focused approach ...

Returning for its 21st edition, Design Miami showcased its largest curation to date. ICON explores some of this year’s top ...

Can the paint industry work together to find sustainable and less harmful solutions? Plagued with toxic chemicals, microplastics and an abundance of greenwashing, the world of paint has been under ...

Designed in the fifties, the Egg Chair is a design classic that has become one of the most recognisable and copied chairs of all time The original Egg was created by the Danish architect and designer ...

From London to New York and beyond, our global edit spotlights the unmissable design shows setting the agenda for 2026.

ICON remains in print, but we now also publish issues digitally. Subscribe to ICON (two issues per year) at our subscriptions site. To peruse the digital issues, navigate the available editions below ...

The London-based social housing complex was design by architects Alison and Peter Smithson as a manifestation of their socialist theories. Completed in 1972, Robin Hood Gardens is a late example of ...

More often than not, when preparing to interview a significant cultural figure, one is sent a semi-apologetic email beforehand from a PR representative, asking that the questions be sent in advance ...

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 ...

The Activate issue showcases how architecture and design can be harnessed as a tool to activate change, whether that’s spatial, environmental, political or social. Lemma Shehadi interviews Alison ...