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Two of a Kind: a new home for France’s FRAC art centre
Quel surprise! The new home for one of France’s FRAC art centres realises a wild proposition from Paris-based practice Lacaton & Vassal - a doppelganger volume of a former shipyard hangar in the docklands of Dunkirk
One to watch: Sebastian Cox, furniture maker
Furniture maker Sebastian Cox, part of the Heal’s Discovers initiative to cultivate new talent
Raf Simons talks about his collaboration with Kvadrat
Belgian designer Raf Simons, former artistic director of the Jil Sander fashion label and currently creative director of Dior Women, has unveiled his first collection for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat
Electric Dreams: rethinking the motor car
The car was undoubtedly one of the most important products of the 20th century. But as the 21st century gathers pace, this incredible personal transportation device has become a victim of its own success, causing many cities to suffer increasingly unacceptable pollution levels and gridlock. The car industry is reinventing itself, but may not be part of the future transport solution at all
A postcard from the Stockholm Furniture Fair
Pernille Stafford, head of Resonate Interiors reports back from this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair
Andreas Ruby and Nathalie Janson on the Baugruppe initiative
Despite ever-increasing house prices, more than 86 per cent of Britons want to own their own home. As debates still range around the UK Government ‘incentives’ such as Help to Buy, can our continental cousins provide alternative models? Complementing our Self-Build feature (see page 88), Berlin’s Baugruppe initiative brings benefits across scales of the individual, the community and the city. Nathalie Janson is a researcher, writer and editor at Ruby Press, an architecture and urbanism publisher founded and directed by co-author Andreas Ruby. They discuss the work of Baugruppe
If you build it: the rise and rise of self-build
Self-build, custom-build, collective custom-build - we’ve always been a nation of DIY lovers, and now the British housing crisis is spurring on several do-it-yourself alternatives to the hegemony of the volume housebuilder. Blueprint has assembled a panel of architects, developers, researchers and strategists to share their perspectives on this emergent field
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the Hepworth Gallery
Johnny Tucker finds an often surprising emotional depth in the work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, the US photographer and artist whose constantly developing photographic style is on show in a retrospective at the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
Blueprint launches Blueprint for the Future competition
Architecture and design students are invited to put their creative talents to creating a cycling ‘hub’ building and satellite hubs in Sheffield, to support the city’s drive to enhance its sustainable transport system and its cycling community. The VeloCity competition, run in conjunction with the British timber body TRADA, is offering a £5000 top prize
Post World’s End Architecture: Greece
Though it's the birthplace of democracy, today Greek citizens find it a hard concept to believe in, living, as they do, in a country where financial independence is an impossible fiction, and where youth unemployment has reached staggering heights. Nevertheless, as the fourth instalment of Post World's End Architecture shows, an emergent architectural scene is transcending the economic situation with imagination and innovation
