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The Blueprint curated diary — by Assemble
30 January 2018Turner Prize-winning architecture collective Assemble shares its recommendations for the best exhibitions, books and events for February
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Rethinking affordable housing: Gorleston Street by Farrells
19 January 2018For a housing development providing flats for rent for key workers in London, the search was on to find a suitable site for mass housing. Farrells has shown on the Hammersmith site that affordable housing can be light, open, generous and nuanced
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Shimmering in the sky: Dollar Bay by SimpsonHaugh
19 January 2018This 31-storey tower overlooking Canary Wharf's South Dock combines a sculptural, crystalline exterior with a shell of 'winter gardens' to provide a new residential language in London's Docklands
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Heritage reborn: The Department Store by Squire and Partners
11 January 2018The Department Store transforms an Edwardian shopping arcade in Brixton into a new practice HQ, event space and community hub
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Architecture noir: the best black buildings in the world
10 January 2018New book Black: Architecture in Monochrome immerses us in a visual history of black buildings around the world
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Ben Derbyshire: 'Far more cash is needed for social housing'
22 December 2017RIBA President Ben Derbyshire argues that the government should view spending on social housing as an investment for the future
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Rectory Farm by Carmody Groarke: the public park that's also a quarry
19 December 2017Carmody Groarke’s Rectory Farm project in suburban London is an innovative approach to vital mineral extraction, which simultaneously provides a large community park above ground
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'Architectural gunpowder': the Experimentarium by CEBRA
14 December 2017When Danish practice CEBRA took on the brief to create a new home for the Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen, it created some ‘gunpowder’ moments, including a double helix staircase clad in 10 tonnes of copper
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Pleasure dome: Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel
13 December 2017Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first building in a proposed new cultural quarter for the city, on land reclaimed from the sea. The building draws on traditional Arab architectural patterns, lighting and forms, but delivers an ambitious programme using 21st-century technologies, materials and sophistication
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Meet Yinka Ilori: the king of narrative furniture
11 December 2017Yinka Ilori, furniture upcycler and star of LDF 2017, talks to Blueprint about storytelling, colour and identity in design
