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Functional Sculpture: Coop Himmelb(l)au's European Central Bank in Frankfurt
6 April 2015Greece’s travails may threaten to deconstruct the euro, but its guardians now have a new headquarters designed by an original master of deconstructivism. In Frankfurt, Coop Himmelb(l)au has housed The European Central Bank in twisting towers, and intervened in a vast historic market hall.
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Review - Imm cologne and Maison&Objet Paris
6 April 2015Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker reports from imm cologne and Maison&Objet Paris
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The Art of Repetition - Chisel & Mouse
6 April 2015With nine new buildings recently added to their portfolio, including a model of the Bauhaus, Chisel & Mouse continue to do what they love.
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Skyward – High-Rise Frankfurt – Review
30 March 2015As we review Frankfurt's latest high-rise, the European Central Bank by Coop Himmelb(l)au, in the current issue of Blueprint, Herbert Wright looks back at Germany's great skyscraper city
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Sou Fujimoto in Miami
30 March 2015Sou Fujimoto is the Japanese architect who brought a cloud composed of thousands of white, steel rods to Kensington Gardens in London. Now he’s created a waterfall in glass in Miami
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Being Human – Ilse Crawford
30 March 2015Former journalist turned designer, Ilse Crawford exercises a humanist approach to her work, to create comfortable, ‘lived-in’ environments. Her outlook was on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, for which she imported her studio’s ‘not cool, but warm’ ethos for the event’s feature lounge
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Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester by MUMA
23 March 2015The rise of Manchester as a confident, contemporary metropolis steps up with the transformation of one of its cultural jewels, the Whitworth Gallery. MUMA’s bold yet sensitive extension of the internationally significant institution is not just a major upgrade, but draws it right into its surrounding parkland.
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Wayne Hemingway’s ‘can-do’ attitude
23 March 2015Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway, currently working on re-establishing Margate’s amusement park Dreamland in a vintage regeneration, urges architects, designers and their clients to be brave in projects, to be creative and adopt the all-important ‘can-do’ philosophy.
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Audi e-tron – Review
23 March 2015Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker takes a test drive in Audi's latest plug-in hybrid, the A3 e-tron
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Drawing a Line – Alexander McQueen’s drawings
16 March 2015As the major exhibition on the iconic work of British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, opens at the V&A, here we publish some of McQueen’s conceptual sketches and republish an essay by the director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Abraham Thomas. It appears with 27 other essays in the show’s catalogue book.
