• No Apologies: Farrell on location at MI6

    22 July 2013

    On 27 June, the inaugural event in Blueprint’s new 20/20 series took place with Sir Terry Farrell invited to talk about one of his most influential contributions to the London skyline – the SIS or Secret Intelligence Service HQ, more commonly known as MI6 building.

  • Canal houses, Cookies & Consultation: in conversation with DUS Architects

    18 July 2013

    ‘A dome of umbrellas to trigger a spontaneous street party. A floating structure of ‘China Bags’ to encourage cultural exchange. A pavilion made of soap bubbles that only appears when people build it. DUS Architects is anything but an architecture firm in the traditional sense.’

  • Roots Manoeuvre: Design & Build workshop at WOMAD

    17 July 2013

    As the festival season starts to get into full swing, one field-based music event in particular is targeting architects and would-be architects to get back to basics and go hands on.

  • Design of the Year 2013: People’s Choice

    5 July 2013

    2013 has seen the first opportunity for the public to vote for their Design of the Year at the Design Museum. From an impressive and wide ranging 99 entries to choose from, the exhibition threw power to the people to choose their favourite product of 2012/2013.

  • Joining the Dots at the Building Centre

    2 July 2013

    FX & Blueprint Drawing Competition: The results

    Drawings, before language, are primarily tools to communicate; they can be instructive, function as propaganda, or act as the testimony of laborious acts of love. As powerful as digital rendering software can be, there’s nothing as visceral as a hand-drawn sketch to convey an idea and some of its energy.

  • Making the Leadenhall Building: VIDEO & exclusive diary

    19 June 2013

    The Leadenhall building, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is currently the tallest building in the increasingly vertiginous City of London (for the moment at least).

  • Obstacles, Chaos & Joy: Yuki Sumner on Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion

    18 June 2013

    Prompting a flood of excuses from the gallery staff, a rhetorical question was posed by a woman in the audience at the end of the public talk given by Sou Fujimoto, at this year’s Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion.

  • RIBA National Awards 2013: interactive map & gallery

    17 June 2013

    It has been a while in the making but here is your one-stop shop for the RIBA national awards, which were announced today: Blueprint brings you our first interactive map, allowing you to see how the awards are clustered and distributed up and down the country and indeed which practices are responsible for them…

  • LFA event: Shared Spaces & Learning from Poynton

    13 June 2013

    The London Festival of Architecture is well underway and amongst its many offerings is a discussion that will explore the important idea of shared spaces and how these are created successfully.

  • 20:20 with Sir Terry Farrell – a special Blueprint event

    7 June 2013

    Blueprint with Farrells are very pleased to present the inaugural Blueprint 20:20 seminar on 27 June 2013.