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Just passing through - moveable architecture
15 April 2014Architecture, for so many years obsessed with permanence and making grand statements, is now looking at ways in which structures can be reused and transported elsewhere while maintaining their initial concept
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Nominate now for the first Blueprint awards
14 April 2014For the first time in its illustrious 30-year history, Blueprint launches a full awards scheme celebrating the very best in architecture and design
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Reclaiming the public Realm in Belo Horizonte
11 April 2014The riots that broke out in Brazil last summer were culmination of several years of peaceful occupations of authority-controlled ‘public spaces’. And while the unrest has dissipated in much of the country, in its third largest city Belo Horizonte, different groups of activists that include architects and architecture students, are showing how to use and plan the city’s spaces while adding a political dimension to the popular movement
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Runway Success - what to do with London's airports
2 April 2014The only thing that seems certain is that London and the South East needs more airport capacity. With a range of proposals put forward, the Airports Commission is due to get down to the nitty-gritty of where and how it is to be supplied
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A house made from aeroplane parts, by architect David Hertz
31 March 2014A unique house has taken shape in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, with the component parts of Boeing 747s cut up and integrated - with some physical difficulty - into the house designed by architect David Hertz, of the Studio of Environmental Architecture
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Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming - review
31 March 2014by Anthony Dunny & Fiona Raby, MIT Press, £19.95
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Ruin Lust at Tate Britain
25 March 2014Tate Britain, London
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Do designers really need millions of colours, asks Erik Spiekermann
25 March 2014We’ve come a long way from Henry Ford and his any colour ‘so long as it’s black’ line. Pantone’s system, now half a century old, offers more than 10,000 colours and is bigging up an ‘enigmatic purple’ for 2014 (18-3224), while digital screen colours now run into the millions. Maybe it’s all gone too far, say Erik Spiekermann. Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann
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Public art reaches out beyond the gallery
20 March 2014Public art is a hot topic right now, inspiring new directives, new public debates and greater breadth and imagination deployed in its commissioning and execution than ever before
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Hashima revisited: photographing Japan's ghost island
19 March 2014Photographer Andrew Meredith was one of the first people allowed on to the tiny Japanese island of Hashima. It took him three years of negotiations with the authorities to gain access to this unusual place — once a densely populated mining community that was abandoned practically overnight in 1974 and left to rot. He documented his visit in photographs and records for us his feelings of being on the island
