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The best new flooring products
23 December 2013Emily Martin looks at new flooring products, including a conservation-minded floor tile that contains remnants of old fishing nets
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Dexter Moren - 10 things I’ve learned about design
20 December 2013In the first of a new feature, hotel design specialist Dexter Moren, of Dexter Moren Associates, tells Pamela Buxton the most important things he’s learned in his 20 years in the design business
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Got it covered!
20 December 2013We asked design practices Woods Bagot and Marta Nowicka & Co to respond to a brief detailing a temporary show space for fictitious start-up company Exetera, selling three exciting but boring-looking 3D printers. Flooring was to be used to delineate space and focus the product
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Wouter Vanstiphout: how Rotterdam lost its architectural soul
16 December 2013Blueprint invited architectural historian and professor of design Wouter Vanstiphout to comment on (De) Rotterdam — the city and the building — currently gracing the cover of our seriously jam-packed current issue (number 331). His eloquent lament for a city that once vibrated with an untamed, gritty energy, is published here in full.
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New urban quarter unveiled for historic London site
13 December 2013Sheppard Robson, Maccreanor Lavington and Piercy&Company have revealed detailed facade designs for buildings located within Barts Square – a new urban, 3.2 acre mixed-use quarter in the City of London’s Smithfield Conservation Area.
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Chair fit for a prince
13 December 2013A competition run by The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers to design a high chair for Prince George has been won by Katie Walker. Her entry was one of five shortlisted, along with those from other eminent Bespoke Guild Mark holders Matthew Burt, David Colwell, Jake Phipps, and James Ryan.
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Shanghai Film Museum
13 December 2013Set in a former film studio, this new museum is an interactive experience that gives visitors the thrill of the Shanghai’s film history and an insight into a still-thriving industry
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Museum’s new extension opens under new name
10 December 2013The new extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, designed by Berman Guedes Stretton, has officially opened this month under its new name, The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The practice won the RIBA national competition for the extension in 2008.
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Interview: LEGO builder Duncan Titmarsh
6 December 2013Emily Martin talks to LEGO Certified Professional Duncan Titmarsh, who takes his fun job of building models out of the plastic bricks very seriously, and so does business, which is keeping his company Bright Bricks very busy indeed
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Momofuku Toronto
6 December 2013With a diverse cultural mix and a thriving city economy, Toronto now has a new Asian fusion restaurant, with four thematic destinations linked by design from The Design Agency
