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Art Therapy – bringing St Peter’s Seminary back to life
Finally made safe after decades of decay, St Peter’s Seminary, designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, is about to begin the next stage of its extraordinary life. Gareth Gardner explores Scotland’s iconic modernist ruin
Could fungi become a part of our wardrobe?
An unconventional material has been used to design fashionable clothing
2016 Furniture Fairs review
We bring you our top picks and designers to watch from four shows this spring: Stockholm Furniture Fair, Maison&Objet, northmodern and Imm Cologne
Curated Diary – Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley, director of new film High-Rise, picks his top events for spring, including new TV shows, headsets and computer games
The beginning of a beautiful friendship
Alejandro Aravena was largely unheard of outside of his home country of Chile until he won last year’s Pritzker Prize. Now, he’s directing this year’s International Architecture Exhibition in Venice...
Reporter: Salone del Mobile Milano 2016
The Milan Furniture Show is calling for its six-day festival where exhibitors give an insight into the world of furniture and furnishing accessories from 12-17 April.
Gas station design – the world’s 10 best filling stations for 2016
DesignCurial defines the 10 best designed gas and petrol stations in the world
Architects for Animals: Mansions for homeless cats
An animals in need charity receives support from architects and designers
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016
Zaha Hadid, 2004 Pritzker Laureate, has changed the world forever, but left it on 31st March. Blueprint contributing editor Herbert Wright honours her genius.
The effect of colour in the built environment - the scientific evidence
So much waffle is written about how colour affects us. You hear how one hue can create a calming effect, while another will provoke passion, or the like, without a shred of evidence to back up the claims. Blueprint decided to get to the bottom of this and find out just how much measurable scientific proof there is of the effect of colour in the built environment. We teamed up with Milliken Carpets, which commissioned colour expert, Byron Mikellides, Emeritus Professor of the Place, Culture and Identity Research Group at Oxford Brookes University, to tells us what empirical knowledge exists on this subject
