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The Blueprint curated diary: Jan Boelen
20 September 2018Curator of this year’s Istanbul Design Biennial, Jan Boelen shares his highlights for the autumn
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Preview: London Design Festival 2018
13 September 2018Blueprint rounds up the highlights of what to see at this year’s London Design Festival (15–23 September)
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'The ultimate makerspace': UCL Here East by Hawkins\Brown
12 September 2018UCL’s new outpost at Here East in Stratford has been designed by Hawkins\Brown to facilitate innovation and cross-disciplinarity, with a 2,000 sq m prototyping laboratory
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The architects tackling the housing crisis
7 September 2018Having once been the envy of the world for the quality of its housing, the UK’s current output is now regarded as one of the worst. How can architects bring their ingenuity and vision to remedy this situation?
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Meet Forensic Architecture — the first ‘architectural detective agency’
31 August 2018Forensic Architecture is redefining the profession — and getting nominated for the Turner Prize in the process. Veronica Simpson meets the team behind it
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The Jungle Block: Marina One by Ingenhoven Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman
29 August 2018Under an equatorial sun, a new wave of Singaporean buildings is blooming with vegetation. At Marina One, a vast complex designed by Ingenhoven Architects and landscaped by Gustafson Porter + Bowman, the big innovation is to integrate a jungle into the heart of the complex
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Cube Haus: off-the-peg homes designed by top architects
22 August 2018A new startup believes homes designed by top architects needn’t cost the earth. With off-the-peg designs from Adjaye Associates, Skene Catling de la Peña, Carl Turner Architects, and Faye Toogood, Cube Haus is hoping to transform residential development
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A 21st-century castle: Fjordenhus by Studio Olafur Eliasson
16 August 2018Sitting in the water at Vejle, Denmark, Fjordenhus is Studio Olafur Eliasson's first (and last) solo architectural project, embracing ‘outsider’ architecture and with hardly a right angle to be seen
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Book review: Design as an Attitude by Alice Rawsthorn
10 August 2018Alice Rawsthorn’s new book, Design as an Attitude, proposes an expansion of what we consider as design, championing its social and facilitatory role
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Art of the invisible: The new Royal Academy by David Chipperfield Architects
6 August 2018London’s Royal Academy of Arts has been surgically attached and integrated with its neighbouring building, nearly doubling in size, adding new galleries and making visible the art school at its heart
