may 2012

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Leader Scene iary ANATOMY Of rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month

FRONT Stage sets Dominic Wilcox nibbles his way into the tabloids Events to see this month The Royal College of Art’s redesigned ambulance Nick Bell projects a future with zero economic growth Gaston Nogues’ favourite things Metabolist monument, the Nagakin capsule tower

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NEW Future Systems’ Ferrari Museum, a concourse for King’s Cross by John McAslan, reviews of Design Indaba and Stockholm Furniture Fair, Hella Jongerius and OMA’s fit-out for the United Nations, plus previews of Milan Furniture Fair and Clerkenwell Design Week

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SELgascano rodarte kilden theatre stage architecture ith center

FEATURE The Spanish practice brings a riot of colour and carnival to the Cartagena waterfront Black Swan’s costume designers team up with Gehry ALA’s dockside theatre in Norway is “a factory for dreams and fantasies” The choreographer Frédéric Flamand’s collaborations with a string of leading architects The only real building in Las Vegas

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ITALIAN DESIGN REPORT 28 pages of the latest design from Italy

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REVIEW American suburbs, electronic cigarettes, 50 years of hoarded junk, a festival in slow motion and Geoff Dyer’s life intertwined with a 1979 Soviet f ilm

PRODUCTS Selected lighting, furniture and f looring products

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DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services

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BACK PAGE Pritzker prizewinner Herman Hertzberger

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