• Listen: George Ferguson

    9 August 2016

    George Ferguson is an architect and a former RIBA president, who has just concluded four years running Bristol city as elected mayor. Not aligned with any political party, he used his independent status to implement radical transport, education and outreach schemes and partnerships during his time, aimed at creating a more resilient, connected and healthy city. His grand finale was devising and hosting Bristol’s European Green capital 2015 programme, harnessing the city’s rich creative, social and intellectual capital to generate enthusiasm for sustainable living

  • Brighton seafront welcomes British Airways i360

    3 August 2016

    The Brighton seafront is about to change forever, thanks to the British Airways i360, the tallest moving observation tower in the world which will open to the public on Thursday 4th August.

  • Switching place: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension

    1 August 2016

    Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000. The new Switch House’s angular geometry, permeability, movement and, materiality are explored by Herbert Wright, who also earlier talked to its architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

  • Blueprint reviews Alejandro Aravena’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale

    1 August 2016

    We share the very best of this year’s festival, curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with the theme Reporting from the Front, and find a distinctive move away from starchitecture in favour of socially minded projects and research

  • A hypnotic theatre turned bookshop in Buenos Aires

    29 July 2016

    A 1919 palatial theatre in Buenos Aires, named the ‘El Ateneo Grand Splendid’, has been transformed into a booklover’s paradise. Originally designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengol for Empresario Max Glücksmann, the auditorium features spacious ceiling murals painted by Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi and caryatids sculpted by Troiano Troian which subsequently created an ecclesiastical structure.

  • Buildair designs inflatable, self-sustaining emergency shelter

    27 July 2016

    A new development of emergency shelter has been designed by Buildair, which features built-in solar power, a bag that converts manure into cooking gas, and a backpack that can provide access to mobile charging. These features are vital in the new generation of emergency response kits, and can help people survive disasters which take away their energy resources.

  • San Shan Bridge by Penda made up of intersecting rings for 2022 Winter Olympics

    25 July 2016

    In preparation for the Olympic Winter Games in 2022, architecture studio Penda have teamed up with engineering firm Arup in order to design a bridge made up of overlapping rings connecting the city centre to Zhangjiaku

  • Engineering the world: Ove Arup and the philosophy of total design

    25 July 2016

    London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings engineering to the fore with a retrospective exhibition on the prolific engineer Sir Ove Arup and his hugely successful practice

  • Take part to win a High Rise movie merchandise package

    21 July 2016

    Answer the question below for the chance to win a High Rise t-shirt, poster and DVD

  • The Publishing House: a Blueprint pavilion at the London Design Fair

    21 July 2016

    Blueprint magazine is collaborating with FleaFollyArchitects and USM modular furniture to create a pavilion at this year's London Design Fair