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La belle et la bête: the Fondation Pathé by Renzo Piano
22 September 2014Renzo Piano has inserted a radical aluminium-clad six-storey structure directly into the historic urban fabric of Paris, but it remains virtually invisible from the street. Piano himself admits that the Fondation Pathé ‘looks like a little animal actually trying to go up and breathe fresh air’.
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The best graduate work of 2014
12 September 2014As we head back to school, it’s time to celebrate the very best in student work from around the UK. To help survey, nominate and comment on degree projects ranging from architecture and communication design to product design and material futures, Blueprint has brought together a spectrum of esteemed practitioners, designers and critics, including Alex Arestis, Eddie Blake, Kevin Haley, Adam Hiles, Kristian Hyde, Holly Lewis, Hugh McEwen, Steve Parnell, Katherine Spence and Elly Ward. The future starts here...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jean Nouvel at the Cartier Foundation
2 September 2014A special exhibition is being held to mark the occasion of 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Cartier Fondation, housed for the past 20 years in an iconic building on the site of Chateaubriand’s house in the Boulevard Raspail. The Serpentine Galleries’ co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects Hans-Ulrich Obrist talks with Jean Nouvel, the building’s architect.
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Foyles war - London's new book superstore
27 August 2014At the beginning of the recession, London landmark bookshop Foyles took the brave step of deciding to moving lock, stock and barrel, into the site of the former Central Saint Martins building next door. As the tills start ringing in the newly opened building we take a wander around the stacks.
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Alain de Botton brings his Art as Therapy project to the Rijksmuseum
27 August 2014Alain de Botton is putting theory into practice. The writer and commentator on philosphy, art and architecture has recreated his book Art as Therapy at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Selecting works of art and prints from the museum he has grouped them under populist headings and used ubiquitous yellow sticky notes alongside them to help viewers form a more personal way of responding.
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Motown to mountain: Gunnar Birkerts's new National Library of Latvia
20 August 2014Gunnar Birkerts, one of America’s greatest post-war architects, transformed modernism with metaphor and materiality. Now aged 89, he has realised an extraordinary glass mountain in the land of his birth - the new National Library of Latvia, a symbol of the country’s independence struggle from the Soviet Union.
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Gunnar Birkerts - Interview
19 August 2014From Massachusetts, where he's relocated after a career in Michigan, the legendary Latvian émigré Gunnar Birkerts talks to Herbert Wright about influences, Latvia and the new National Library
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'Last Seen Entering the Biltmore' at the South London Gallery
19 August 2014When British artist Richard Healy discovered forgotten American architect Horace Gifford (1932–92), he made an animation about one of his beach houses. That film is now presented in a bespoke installation he designed for a major South London Gallery show. Herbert Wright follows the trail from Long Island to Peckham
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Frank Gehry project to breathe new life into Arles, France
12 August 2014With the assistance of some of the best people in their fields Frank Gehry is creating a series of spaces in the southern French city of Arles, intended to breathe new life into this once-vibrant city.
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14th Venice Architecture Biennale
12 August 2014A look at this year’s research-centred festival, curated by Rem Koolhaas with the theme Fundamentals, showcasing our top 10 pavilions and the two contrasting exhibitions on display in the Giardini and Arsenale.
