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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

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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

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PRODUCTS Selected lighting, furniture and f looring products

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services

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