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A ring road runs through it: Blox by OMA
17 May 2018OMA’s long-anticipated home for the Danish Architecture Centre has opened as a waterside stack of blocks in Copenhagen. The project, which embraces a major road physically and metaphorically, sits at odds with Denmark’s pedestrian-friendly urbanism — but does it work?
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Tetris brutalism: 81–87 Weston St by Solidspace and AHMM
24 April 2018Next to the transformed London Bridge Station, a new kind of mansion flat block has risen, with a 21st-century, high-quality take on brutalism — and a craft-focused design approach described as ‘slow architecture’
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Buoyant futures: architecture turns to urban waterways
16 April 2018Urban waterways, once so vital as transport arteries for trade, are now targets for the newest kind of development: floating architecture
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On the drawing board: Stephenson House by Marks Barfield Architects
18 February 2018Marks Barfield Architects' new mixed-use project is aiming to create a step change in well-being led office design, with its abundance of greenery and healthy features
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Reinterpreting history: Büro Ole Scheeren's Guardian Art Center
13 February 2018German architect Ole Scheeren is no stranger to landmark projects in Beijing. The latest from his practice, the Guardian Art Center, sits at an intersection of competing forces: history and modernity, culture and commerce, anticipating a new direction for architecture in China
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The Danish maximum-security prison where wellbeing comes first
5 February 2018Designed by by CF Møller, Denmark's Storstrøm Prison demonstrates a refreshingly nurturing and rehabilitating approach to prison design. Without so much as a misdemeanor to its name, Blueprint goes inside for a look around
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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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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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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
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'We didn’t want it to feel like a fortress': Rijnstraat 8 by OMA
1 December 2017Rijnstraat 8, a striking renovation project in The Hague from OMA, provides flexible workspace for Dutch govenment ministries and new public space
