• Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    17 January 2017

    ‘Rolling up the street’ was the starting idea for this 14-storey addition to the Columbia Medical School by Diller Scofido + Renfro. With it the practice has also realised a 20-year long exploration of a continuous surface building, albeit as a specific response to site and program.

  • Listen: Michael Pawlyn

    16 January 2017

    While biomimicry has transformed the world of robotics and is being increasingly adopted in engineering and materials science, it is yet to be widely embraced by architects, says Michael Pawlyn. An architect and speaker focused on innovation, Pawlyn is the founder of exploration Architecture, co-founder of the Sahara Forest Project and the author of Biomimicry in Architecture - the second edition was published by RIBA Publishing in October.

  • The Poli House by Karim Rashid

    16 January 2017

    A building with its feet firmly in the turbulent early history of the founding of the state of Israel, Tel Aviv’s new hotel The Poli House has been lavished with audacious colour and playfulness by Karim Rashid in a very modern approach to its interiors that loudly says ‘future’. Anthea Gerrie pays a visit

  • Dyson Campus by WilkinsonEyre

    4 January 2017

    Building on a 20-year relationship with technology company Dyson, WilkinsonEyre has completed a £250m expansion of the Dyson campus in rural Wiltshire, which it first designed in 1996. The centrepiece is a mirrored glass box designed to conceal the brand’s most top-secret innovations...

  • Lisbon’s MAAT by Amanda Levete Architects

    22 December 2016

    MAAT has opened a curvaceous new waterfront building by Amanda Levete’s practice AL_A. It transforms the riverside, reframes the idea of exhibition space, and reconnects this edgeland with the city behind it

  • Beijing Design Week with Herbert Wright

    22 December 2016

    Herbert Wright explores the vast, varied world of Beijing Design Week, from courtyard housing inspired by the traditional Chinese hutong to a vast design park sited on disused power plant complex

  • The Blueprint Curated Diary — by Pedro Gadanho

    14 December 2016

    Portuguese architect Pedro Gadanho, director of the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon designed by AL_A, picks his top events and exhibitions to see this winter

  • Review: Orgatec 2016 — New Visions of Work

    13 December 2016

    The biennial office furniture fair returns with a focus this time on co-working and even an office in a driverless car, finds Mark Eltringham

  • Reporter: the future of work and the workplace

    5 December 2016

    The last outing of the year of WorkTech is ready, set, go in Paris this month

  • Lisbon and Oslo architecture triennales

    5 December 2016

    Herbert Wright compares the contemporary phenomenon of the Oslo
    Architecture Triennale with the timeless themes of the equivalent Lisbon addition