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ICON 216 : Autumn/Winter 2024. In ICON 216, we explore how performance shapes the world of design and architecture – from installations that break boundaries to spaces that come alive with storytelling. Digital Magazines. 30.10.24.
Who designed London’s “wobbly” Millennium Bridge?
Jan 25, 2020 · Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an abstract, modernist sculptor who often worked with metals from discarded industrial objects. He was celebrated as one of the greatest British sculptors of his generation, and spent much of the 1990s developing what he called “sculpitecture”. The bridge collaboration with Foster combined Caro’s interest in ...
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 ...
Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion heralded the modernist era
The Barcelona Pavilion was a hugely significant temporary structure that forms part of the early modernist canon of architecture. Designed by modernism’s golden child Mies van der Rohe and his long-time collaborator Lilly Reich, the Barcelona Pavilion is a paragon of modernist architecture and also housed the Barcelona Chair, one of the most recognisable and iconic design objects of the ...
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.
Ink and acid: The psychedelic design revolution - ICON Magazine
Design. 29.11.16. The youthful creators of psychedelic graphics transformed visual communication in the late 1960s. Rejecting the cold precision of modernism, they set off a riotous explosion of ‘hot’ colours and organic forms. You could call it a revolution …. With the death of David Bowie in January serving to remind us of the imminent ...
Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles
Mar 31, 2020 · The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. Modernist architecture has two chief guiding principles: form follows function and truth to materials. Functionalism, a term coined by American architect Louis Sullivan, stated that the building’s purpose was paramount to the design, and took precedence over beauty. Truth to materials was a ...
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From the Archive: A short history of Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair
Jul 4, 2023 · Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer was known for his innovative furniture design and use of tubular steel. Though he created many pieces of furniture in his time, the Wassily chair is his most iconic piece. The chair was designed in 1925, inspired by a bicycle frame. It is made of curving tubes of steel and leather slings that create a ...
One World Trade Center: A fortress enveloped in glass
Mar 23, 2020 · The concept for One World Trade Center underwent several revisions. After a controversial redesign by Childs, the design was further revised in 2005 when the New York Police Department expressed concerns over the safety of the glass lobby. Their initila suggestion featured a protective concrete wall, that was criticised for looking too military.