• Motioning a Table: How RSH+P Is Building the 'Cheesegrater'

    1 November 2013

    The construction process for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Leadenhall Building is almost like architectural theatre in the City of London. Herbert Wright reports from 140m up, as he watches the yellow table-modules being craned into position..

  • Robe and Crown: Birmingham's new library

    24 October 2013

    Its brutalist predecessor divided opinion in the city, but the new, £189m Library of Birmingham triumphs as a building of the 21st century. It should also be a building for the next century, hopes architect Mecanoo’s Francine Houben.

  • The Art of Repetition: flattened Fiats by Ron Arad

    22 October 2013

    Flat tyres, flat everything - designer Ron Arad has squashed iconic Fiat 500s into two-dimensional, wall-hung art

  • Blueprint magazine celebrates 30th birthday in style

    18 October 2013

    Doyens of British design and architecture including Richard Rogers and Terence Conran attended a special party this month to celebrate the magazine they helped establish 30 years ago

  • Project: One Waverton Street, London, by Squire and Partners

    7 October 2013

    A seven storey townhouse has been squeezed into the space behind the restrained facade of an 18th century pub in Mayfair. Herbert Wright quizzed project architect Marcie Larizadeh on how its Tardis-like design manages to include six bedrooms and a swimming pool

  • Post world's end architecture: Portugal

    13 September 2013

    Once the apex of contemporary excellence, Portugal's architecture has paralleled the Eurozone crisis with a fall from grace. But there may be hope: a new wave of architects is uniting with the community to create provocative new projects with the potential to reclaim the civic domain

  • Post world’s end architecture: Spain

    11 September 2013

    Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, cofounder with Maria Jose Marcos of the consultancy dot agency for architectural affairs, examines the recession’s effect on architecture in Spain, where small-scale interventions, community action and ‘disobedience’ are giving the discipline a political edge

  • House of Card: Shigeru Ban’s Christchurch Cathedral

    21 August 2013

    After 2011's devastating earthquake which reduced swathes of Christchurch, NZ, to rubble, the city’s new interim cathedral designed by Shigeru Ban finally opened to the public this week. The opening marks a long awaited return for the city’s most loved monument and a critical moment in Christchurch’s urban recovery. We revisit our exclusive interview with Ban, conducted earlier this year as the cardboard cathedral was constructed and published in Blueprint #326

  • Ben Kelly chooses his favourite work by Peter Saville

    15 August 2013

    Founder of Ben Kelly Design; designer of FAC51 The Haçienda (1982), Dry 201 (1989) and FAC-251 (1990) for Factory Records, (Factory HQ, Blueprint November 1990); sometime collaborator.

  • Malcolm Garrett chooses his favourite work by Peter Saville

    15 August 2013

    Studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic, contemporary with Saville; founder of Assorted Images (1977); worked with the Buzzcocks and Duran Duran pioneering the idea of music branding; founder of AMX (in 1994), one of London's first interactive design agencies