• Skyward – High-Rise Frankfurt – Review

    30 March 2015

    As we review Frankfurt's latest high-rise, the European Central Bank by Coop Himmelb(l)au, in the current issue of Blueprint, Herbert Wright looks back at Germany's great skyscraper city

  • Being Human – Ilse Crawford

    30 March 2015

    Former journalist turned designer, Ilse Crawford exercises a humanist approach to her work, to create comfortable, ‘lived-in’ environments. Her outlook was on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, for which she imported her studio’s ‘not cool, but warm’ ethos for the event’s feature lounge

  • Serpentine unveils SelgasCano pavilion

    26 March 2015

    Madrid-based architect SelgasCano has created a colourful, double-skinned structure for the Serpentine's 15th pavilion

  • Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester by MUMA

    23 March 2015

    The rise of Manchester as a confident, contemporary metropolis steps up with the transformation of one of its cultural jewels, the Whitworth Gallery. MUMA’s bold yet sensitive extension of the internationally significant institution is not just a major upgrade, but draws it right into its surrounding parkland.

  • Wayne Hemingway’s ‘can-do’ attitude

    23 March 2015

    Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway, currently working on re-establishing Margate’s amusement park Dreamland in a vintage regeneration, urges architects, designers and their clients to be brave in projects, to be creative and adopt the all-important ‘can-do’ philosophy.

  • Audi e-tron – Review

    23 March 2015

    Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker takes a test drive in Audi's latest plug-in hybrid, the A3 e-tron

  • Meet: Camps Felip Arquitecturia

    16 March 2015

    Catalan practice Camps Felip Arquitecturia is going from strength to strength after shaking off the shackles of the recession

  • Blueprint 20/20: Grimshaw’s Eden Project

    10 March 2015

    For the second Blueprint 20/20, we gathered together many of the original protagonists of The Eden Project for an entertaining debate.

  • Rohan Silva on office spaces in London

    10 March 2015

    Despite the number of small businesses and startups in the UK getting bigger and bigger, the property industry has failed to keep up. Rohan Silva, former technology adviser at Number 10, is on a mission to tackle the problem of inflexible, unimaginative office buildings, starting with his latest venture, Second Home, an office space designed by SelgasCano for creative businesses in Shoreditch.

  • History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain – Review

    10 March 2015

    History is now is a group show in which seven artists were asked to consider Britain's post-war history, from 1945 to the present day. Each artist - John Akomfrah, Simon Fujiwara, Roger Hiorns, Hannah Starkey, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Richard Wentworth - curated one room each. Blueprint caught up with Wentworth a couple of days before the show opened to the public