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Pond life – King’s Cross Pond Club
23 June 2015This summer, visitors to the King’s Cross Pond Club will be able to take a dip in Britain’s first naturally filtered bathing pond, located squarely in the middle of one of London’s busiest construction sites. Aquatic plants will purify the water, even as the neighbouring diggers and cranes busy themselves with concrete and dirt. Shumi Bose speaks to artist Marjetica Potrc and Ooze architects, whose collaborative projects allow a glimpse of alternative ways of living
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Review: Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty
23 June 2015Cate St Hill steps into the wicked world of the famous fashion designer and couturier and finds a show not to be missed, have you go your ticket?
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Dim Sum Towers – Heatherwick Studio’s Learning Hub in Singapore
15 June 2015The Thomas Heatherwick Studio has just completed a building for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with the specific intention of it not being anything like any other university building in existence so far. With the Learning Hub’s stacks of circular spaces, its nickname of Dim Sum Towers, given by the students, seems particularly apt
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Review – All of This Belongs to You, V&A
15 June 2015The V&A’s latest exhibition ‘All of This Belongs to You’ uses spectacular commissions, recent acquistions and historical objects to propose a critical, democratic discourse around issues of publicness, privacy and ownership. Shumi Bose finds the ethos of the show to have its roots in the museum’s radical past, as well as pointing the way forwards for its East London future...
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Curated diary – Sean Scully
15 June 2015Dublin-born contemporary artist Sean Scully picks his top art and design events for the coming months
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Camper’s Life on Foot: Zonzo, the city where you can get lost, and the wasting of time
15 June 2015Francesco Careri, founder of architecture collective Stalker and research network Osservatorio Nomade - that carries out walks in the ‘indeterminate’ or void spaces of the city - ponders the meaning of Zonzo, a city of flaneurs as described by Walter Benjamin. The text is taken from The Walking Society, the wide-ranging catalogue that accompanies the Design Museum’s exhibition on Spanish footwear brand Camper, entitled Life on Foot
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Blueprint interiors - The latest in kitchens and bathrooms
4 June 2015Johnny Tucker uncovers food-inspired works of art plus, the latest in kitchens and bathrooms.
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Milan Expo 2015: The Pavilions – the best of the rest
2 June 2015Blueprint brings you the best of the rest of the pavilions from the 2015 Milan Expo.
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Review: Milan Salone 2015
26 May 2015Johnny Tucker was in Milan for Design Week and its lighting component, Euroluce, and serves up his pick of this year’s crop.
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Milan Expo 2015: from Blueprint’s point of view
26 May 2015Milan Expo 2015 offered an indigestible banquet of overblown audio-visual gimmicks and kitsch excess, with huge inconsistencies of architectural and design innovation and liberal helpings of blatant self-promotion. And yet there was much to intrigue and entertain. Veronica Simpson reaches for the Rennies….
