june 2012

Contents

Cover image: david bailey

106

110

116

Leader Scene iary private view ANATOMY Of rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month Towers of Silence pple Stores

Sect Appeal The Rite Stuff

FRONT Heatherwick and Bailey Milan with Lenny Kravitz Events to see this month Richard Meier A bionic exoskeleton Rosie Lee takes on the ticket vending machine Ab Rogers chooses five objects with stories to tell The Swiss Army Knife

NEW Churches in Tenerife and Helsinki, a tiled museum by Kengo Kuma in China, more tiles at the Bisazza collection in Italy, Frank Gehry’s New York theatre, Eric Jourdan’s sculptural furniture, a cooker that’s helping Kenyan slum-dwellers and more

FEATURE How Thomas Heatherwick aims to secure the future of an ancient religion with a giant aviary The computer giant’s glass cubes are modern places of pilgrimage – and centres for its unique cult Why do architects so enjoy designing churches? Updating ritual objects for the 21st century – and making new idols for a secular world

023 026 028 031 035 037 038 040

044

098

106 110

116

REVIEW Owen Hatherley looks through a guide to the architecture of Pyongyang, the V&A takes an Olympian view of British Design and Jean-Louis Cohen looks back at the future of architecture

124

PRODUCTS Selected lighting, furniture and f looring products

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services

BACK PAGE David Adjaye

132

154

158