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Marsh View House - Lynch Architects
Patrick Lynch's work is concerned with narrative in a way that is intellectually ambitious, producing architecture that is strange yet familiar, implying rather than describing a genius loci. Marsh View, a new house for an artist in Norfolk, is his biggest project yet.
New urban surfaces
Where I live, the pavements are cracked and bruised. The streets are scarred. The park is exhausted. This is North London but it's probably the same where you live. The ground beneath our feet has degenerated into a slum carpet: cheapskate, ill-considered and uncared for. It doesn't have to be like this. Across Europe, architects and designers are realising that the urban terrain defines the way we navigate our towns and cities, and serves as a stage upon which we live our public lives. Icon presents eight projects showing how urban surfaces can be as intelligent, beautiful and lyrical as any building or object.
EMBT
A new park in Barcelona
Richard Wentworth
On the New Art Gallery, Walsall
Muf
Landscaping and territorial behaviour
Patterns
Using digital modelling and CNC
Abalos and Herreros
The figurative in public spaces
S333
A mountain in the Netherlands
OMA
Brussels is turned into billboards
West 8
Evoking desire and anticipation
Rotterdam Architecture Biennale
Mobility is the theme of the first International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, which opens this month. Icon spoke to its director, Francine Houben.
Review: Cristina Iglesias
Cristina Iglesias's first solo exhibition in the UK may be architectural in scale, but it's about intricacy and intimacy, writes Justin McGuirk.
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor has never heard anything like it. He has been asked by the city of Naples to design a new underground station. "They're mad," he chuckles. "It's folly! They don't know what they've let themselves in for, ha ha! But it's wonderful; I can't imagine anything better than doing a tube station."
News: John Lennon's house
John Lennon's bedroom is tidier than you'd expect. There is a handful of 45s scattered on a shelf behind the bed and posters of Bardot and Elvis on the walls, but the Just William books on the desk are hardly what you'd expect of a teenage rock star. |