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Renzo Piano - interview
29 September 2014The maestro sends Herbert Wright a picture of his secret forest retreat and from there enlightens him about the Fondation Pathé, the secrets of a tranquil garden and hidden beauty.
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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture - review
22 September 2014American architect Louis Kahn is renowned as a visionary, his work taught in architecture schools far and wide, and yet his acclaim is based on a few diverse buildings completed in a relatively short burst of just 25 years.
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La belle et la bête: the Fondation Pathé by Renzo Piano
22 September 2014Renzo Piano has inserted a radical aluminium-clad six-storey structure directly into the historic urban fabric of Paris, but it remains virtually invisible from the street. Piano himself admits that the Fondation Pathé ‘looks like a little animal actually trying to go up and breathe fresh air’.
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The best graduate work of 2014
12 September 2014As we head back to school, it’s time to celebrate the very best in student work from around the UK. To help survey, nominate and comment on degree projects ranging from architecture and communication design to product design and material futures, Blueprint has brought together a spectrum of esteemed practitioners, designers and critics, including Alex Arestis, Eddie Blake, Kevin Haley, Adam Hiles, Kristian Hyde, Holly Lewis, Hugh McEwen, Steve Parnell, Katherine Spence and Elly Ward. The future starts here...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jean Nouvel at the Cartier Foundation
2 September 2014A special exhibition is being held to mark the occasion of 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Cartier Fondation, housed for the past 20 years in an iconic building on the site of Chateaubriand’s house in the Boulevard Raspail. The Serpentine Galleries’ co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects Hans-Ulrich Obrist talks with Jean Nouvel, the building’s architect.
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Motown to mountain: Gunnar Birkerts's new National Library of Latvia
20 August 2014Gunnar Birkerts, one of America’s greatest post-war architects, transformed modernism with metaphor and materiality. Now aged 89, he has realised an extraordinary glass mountain in the land of his birth - the new National Library of Latvia, a symbol of the country’s independence struggle from the Soviet Union.
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14th Venice Architecture Biennale
12 August 2014A look at this year’s research-centred festival, curated by Rem Koolhaas with the theme Fundamentals, showcasing our top 10 pavilions and the two contrasting exhibitions on display in the Giardini and Arsenale.
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Less is more: the Al Zorah pavilion in Ajman, designed by Annabel Karim
8 July 2014Dubai’s neighbour, Ajman, has just unveiled an elegant and contemporary building by French architect Annabel Karim Kassar. Veronica Simpson hopes it signifies a shift in the region’s architectural sensibilities: could thoughtful and classy architecture be the new bling?
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Zeev Aram: A Design for life
17 June 2014Now celebrating its 50th year of existence, the Aram Store is a perfect reflection of the sensibilities of its owner and originator, Zeev Aram, who has never compromised his beliefs in design. Architecturally trained, he chose instead to champion outstanding design by relative unknowns, and hoped would-be buyers would share his beliefs. Fifty years on, it’s probably safe to say they did...
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Aberrant Architecture: play for today
9 June 2014Humour has become something of a signature for the work of David Chambers and Kevin Haley, collectively known as Aberrant Architecture. And while finding the fun in the projects they work on, from interactive installations to studies of the British pub, the duo approaches them through historical research and storytelling.
