• Game, Set and Match

    5 July 2016

    With the Olympic flame due to be in Rio next month, it’s timely to look at new UK stadia that are springing up with an eye to hospitality as well as the game. Veronica Simpson reports...

  • A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA and Beyond review

    4 July 2016

    Bringing the Japanese sensibility to New York, this MoMA show focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA

  • Big Mac: Entrepot Macdonald, Paris

    4 July 2016

    The longest building in Paris has just had a billion-euro makeover. The new Entrepôt Macdonald is a collaboration involving 15 architects including Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc and Kengo Kuma of Japan. This is a visionary grand projet away from where tourists tread, but some involved question the megastructure that has resulted. Herbert Wright went down the line to report

  • Emaar designs an astonishing new skyline for Dubai

    27 June 2016

    It doesn't get bigger or better than this design, really it doesn't. Designed by Santiago Calatrava Valls, a new iconic destination was unveiled at an exclusive preview in Dubai. With a design that was influenced by the natural contours of the lily flower and the region's Islamic culture, The Pinnacle Room will crown The Tower. Once built it is predicted that The Tower will be Dubai Creek Harbour's most desired residential and leisure destinations in the city.

  • New York story: Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center transit hub

    27 June 2016

    Inspired by a dove being released from the hands of a child, Santiago Calatrava’s transit hub at the World Trade Center features a pair of white steel-ribbed wings soaring 50m into the sky. Delayed and more than twice its original budget, at over $4bn, it is an astonishing Instagrammable spectacle, but will time heal the cost to New Yorkers?

  • Meet: Gort Scott Architects

    27 June 2016

    Cate St Hill chats to London-based architecture practice Gort Scott, which is reaching maturity and garnering attention with two smart projects for Oxbridge universities

  • Supreme Court of the Netherlands / KAAN Architecten

    23 June 2016

    Sandwiched between historical parliamentary buildings and a popular site for mass demonstration, a new building designed by KAAN Architecten in The Hague has found a very fitting location for the country’s Supreme Court. Providing a dignified and elegant addition to its location, while working within very strict parameters as laid down by the state, KAAN Architecten has produced a design that marries both openness and privacy

  • Blueprint 20/20: Ron Arad’s Rover chair

    23 June 2016

    In March Blueprint brought Ron Arad back to his alma mater, London’s Architectural Association, for a 20/20 talk. The idea behind 20/20 is that architects and designers expound with the benefit of perfect vision - hindsight - on a project which changed the course of their career. Ron Arad chose the Rover chair

  • Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter comes first against top architects

    22 June 2016

    Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has won the renowned global competition to design ‘The Icefjord Centre’ in Ilulissat which is expected to open autumn 2020. The city is situated in the UNESCO-protected area on the west coast in picturesque Greenland and the centre is used as a gathering point where local residents, businesses, climate researchers, climate debaters and global tourists meet in a dynamic learning and exhibition space.

  • The battle of Hastings Pier

    14 June 2016

    Once grand statements of Victorian seaside towns’ confidence and bravado, piers, like the towns themselves, are now often neglected and down-at-heel. In Hastings, however, the fire-damaged pier has risen from the ashes thanks to the local community and dRMM architects