• Out There: Our Post-War Art review

    29 March 2016

    Historic England’s exhibition at London’s Somerset House provides a timely call-to-action to help save the nation’s sculptures and public art, finds Herbert Wright

  • Soaring King Street tower ‘shimmers like oil slick on water’

    24 March 2016

    Another new development in Melbourne battles with height restrictions

  • The Woo Building by Haworth Tompkins

    22 March 2016

    A new building by Stirling Prize and Blueprint Award winner Haworth Tompkins completes its ensemble at the Royal College of Arts’ Battersea campus. The practice’s industrial approach embodies advice given by Jim Cadbury-Brown, architect of the original iconic RCA building in Kensington. Herbert Wright reports

  • Transparent Starlight Room provides panoramic views of alpine landscape

    18 March 2016

    A cabin in the Dolomites offers a closer way to experience the mountain sky

  • The hills have eyes

    17 March 2016

    Craftsmanship and big ambitions brought this intriguing house to life despite a small budget

  • King’s Cross Gasholders by WilkinsonEyre

    15 March 2016

    The vast, ongoing development of King’s Cross behind the station, led by Argent, has seen major repurposings of industrial heritage, such as the Granary Building. Perhaps the most unusual are three conjoined Victorian gasholders, Grade II listed like their neighbour gasholder no. 8. A WilkinsonEyre project will see them restored, to house three cylindrical-based volumes, rising 12, nine and eight storeys and providing 145 apartments, ready in 2017. Practice founder Chris Wilkinson talks about King’s Cross Gasholders with Herbert Wright.

  • Resilient cities: Bristol

    15 March 2016

    Bristol’s year as European Green Capital has seen this UK city deliver a raft of projects that demonstrate its commitment to sustainable transport, energy, food culture and urban design. But a greater force is being summoned to maximise the programme’s impact: the creativity and enthusiasm of its citizens

  • Melbourne Quarter: The city’s answer to the NYC High Line

    15 March 2016

    A new sustainable precinct is on its way to the heart of Melbourne's up and coming economic centre in the Southern Cross area

  • Join in with Blueprint and Ecophon’s #verticalview competition

    14 March 2016

    Share your vertical snaps for the chance to win weekly prizes including a MacBook Air

  • Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre blooms with steel efficient design

    11 March 2016

    This petal-like design uses two-thirds less steel