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Skyward – High-Rise Frankfurt – Review
30 March 2015As we review Frankfurt's latest high-rise, the European Central Bank by Coop Himmelb(l)au, in the current issue of Blueprint, Herbert Wright looks back at Germany's great skyscraper city
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Sou Fujimoto in Miami
30 March 2015Sou Fujimoto is the Japanese architect who brought a cloud composed of thousands of white, steel rods to Kensington Gardens in London. Now he’s created a waterfall in glass in Miami
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Being Human – Ilse Crawford
30 March 2015Former journalist turned designer, Ilse Crawford exercises a humanist approach to her work, to create comfortable, ‘lived-in’ environments. Her outlook was on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, for which she imported her studio’s ‘not cool, but warm’ ethos for the event’s feature lounge
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Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester by MUMA
23 March 2015The rise of Manchester as a confident, contemporary metropolis steps up with the transformation of one of its cultural jewels, the Whitworth Gallery. MUMA’s bold yet sensitive extension of the internationally significant institution is not just a major upgrade, but draws it right into its surrounding parkland.
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Wayne Hemingway’s ‘can-do’ attitude
23 March 2015Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway, currently working on re-establishing Margate’s amusement park Dreamland in a vintage regeneration, urges architects, designers and their clients to be brave in projects, to be creative and adopt the all-important ‘can-do’ philosophy.
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Audi e-tron – Review
23 March 2015Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker takes a test drive in Audi's latest plug-in hybrid, the A3 e-tron
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Drawing a Line – Alexander McQueen’s drawings
16 March 2015As the major exhibition on the iconic work of British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, opens at the V&A, here we publish some of McQueen’s conceptual sketches and republish an essay by the director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Abraham Thomas. It appears with 27 other essays in the show’s catalogue book.
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Meet: Camps Felip Arquitecturia
16 March 2015Catalan practice Camps Felip Arquitecturia is going from strength to strength after shaking off the shackles of the recession
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History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain – Review
10 March 2015History is now is a group show in which seven artists were asked to consider Britain's post-war history, from 1945 to the present day. Each artist - John Akomfrah, Simon Fujiwara, Roger Hiorns, Hannah Starkey, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Richard Wentworth - curated one room each. Blueprint caught up with Wentworth a couple of days before the show opened to the public
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Making connections: Grimshaw’s Fulton Centre, Manhattan
2 March 2015The trains now pulling into Manhattan’s Fulton Center are several years late, but welcome nonetheless... The Grimshaw-designed transit hub, just opened, stands out in the subway system for its natural light and clear sightlines, inspired by the city’s great civic transit halls. It is certainly attracting the attention of the commuters, who are pausing to view the unique Sky Reflector-Net overhead that is bouncing light around the new spaces.
