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Why architects are working for property developers
23 April 2014Some of the UK’s most interesting architects are doing their best work for developers. We investigate what’s behind the property sector’s apparent conversion to the cause of good design
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Paolo Mendes da Rocha - interview
23 April 2014Brazil’s legendary Pritzker Prize winner talks to Herbert Wright from São Paolo, about the new Museum of Coaches, his approach, and Portugal
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Opinion: Jo Valentine of London First on airport expansion
16 April 2014In the wake of the government’s Airports Commission interim report recommending expansion at Heathrow and Gatwick over plans for a new Thames Estuary airport, Baroness Jo Valentine says that we should make our choice and just get on with it. She is chief executive of London First, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the views of its membership, made up of the capital’s leading employers in sectors such as financial and business services, property, transport, creative industries, hospitality and retail, as well as tertiary education. For a detailed look what’s being planned for London’s airport expansion (see Runway Success, page 74)
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Just passing through - moveable architecture
15 April 2014Architecture, for so many years obsessed with permanence and making grand statements, is now looking at ways in which structures can be reused and transported elsewhere while maintaining their initial concept
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Nominate now for the first Blueprint awards
14 April 2014For the first time in its illustrious 30-year history, Blueprint launches a full awards scheme celebrating the very best in architecture and design
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Reclaiming the public Realm in Belo Horizonte
11 April 2014The riots that broke out in Brazil last summer were culmination of several years of peaceful occupations of authority-controlled ‘public spaces’. And while the unrest has dissipated in much of the country, in its third largest city Belo Horizonte, different groups of activists that include architects and architecture students, are showing how to use and plan the city’s spaces while adding a political dimension to the popular movement
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Runway Success - what to do with London's airports
2 April 2014The only thing that seems certain is that London and the South East needs more airport capacity. With a range of proposals put forward, the Airports Commission is due to get down to the nitty-gritty of where and how it is to be supplied
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A house made from aeroplane parts, by architect David Hertz
31 March 2014A unique house has taken shape in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, with the component parts of Boeing 747s cut up and integrated - with some physical difficulty - into the house designed by architect David Hertz, of the Studio of Environmental Architecture
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Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming - review
31 March 2014by Anthony Dunny & Fiona Raby, MIT Press, £19.95
