• Artist Decorators: The Grantchester Pottery at the ICA

    13 August 2013

    Tucked away beneath the stairs at the ICA, there is a small room that has been taken over by decorators. This little area has been transformed into a space that is bursting with intense colour – much in contrast with the rest of the stark white gallery.

  • Keeping Time: Conrad Shawcross at the Roundhouse

    2 August 2013

    The first thing that hits you, as you walk into the newest installation at Camden’s renowned Roundhouse, is a sense of void; a deafening silence envelops as your eyes accustom to the shadowy space. Suspended from the centre of the room is the only illuminating feature in an otherwise completely darkened room. This is British artist Conrad Shawcross’ newest kinetic artwork: Timepiece, a eight-metre wide rotating mechanism, glinting in the dark.

  • 2013 Serpentine Pavilion

    1 August 2013

    The 2013 Serpentine Pavilion brought together Sou Fujimoto, the youngest architect to design the installation, and AECOM, a new engineer and technical consultant for the pavilion.

  • Ice Lab: Architecture and Science

    23 July 2013

    Combatting the heatwave currently wilting the rest of the country, The Lighthouse in Glasgow is taking a distinctly chilly turn this week, as it opens the exhibition ‘Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica’, commissioned by the British Council. This internationally touring exhibition is intended to provide visitors an insight into how innovative contemporary architecture is facilitating new research in one of the world’s most harsh and hostile environments – Antarctica.

  • No Apologies: Farrell on location at MI6

    22 July 2013

    On 27 June, the inaugural event in Blueprint’s new 20/20 series took place with Sir Terry Farrell invited to talk about one of his most influential contributions to the London skyline – the SIS or Secret Intelligence Service HQ, more commonly known as MI6 building.

  • Canal houses, Cookies & Consultation: in conversation with DUS Architects

    18 July 2013

    ‘A dome of umbrellas to trigger a spontaneous street party. A floating structure of ‘China Bags’ to encourage cultural exchange. A pavilion made of soap bubbles that only appears when people build it. DUS Architects is anything but an architecture firm in the traditional sense.’

  • Roots Manoeuvre: Design & Build workshop at WOMAD

    17 July 2013

    As the festival season starts to get into full swing, one field-based music event in particular is targeting architects and would-be architects to get back to basics and go hands on.

  • Design of the Year 2013: People’s Choice

    5 July 2013

    2013 has seen the first opportunity for the public to vote for their Design of the Year at the Design Museum. From an impressive and wide ranging 99 entries to choose from, the exhibition threw power to the people to choose their favourite product of 2012/2013.

  • Joining the Dots at the Building Centre

    2 July 2013

    FX & Blueprint Drawing Competition: The results

    Drawings, before language, are primarily tools to communicate; they can be instructive, function as propaganda, or act as the testimony of laborious acts of love. As powerful as digital rendering software can be, there’s nothing as visceral as a hand-drawn sketch to convey an idea and some of its energy.

  • Making the Leadenhall Building: VIDEO & exclusive diary

    19 June 2013

    The Leadenhall building, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is currently the tallest building in the increasingly vertiginous City of London (for the moment at least).