• Grimshaw’s first project in Russia opens

    4 April 2014

    The terminal at the new Pulkovo International Airport has opened. The airport is a joint design effort between Grimshaw, Ramboll and Pascall + Watson, and the terminal's opening marks the completion of the first phase of the airport's master plan.

  • A house made from aeroplane parts, by architect David Hertz

    31 March 2014

    A unique house has taken shape in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, with the component parts of Boeing 747s cut up and integrated - with some physical difficulty - into the house designed by architect David Hertz, of the Studio of Environmental Architecture

  • If only...we could use cloud generators in London spaces

    26 March 2014

    Says Coupdeville Architects

  • Design that uses natural light to generate energy

    26 March 2014

    Two temporary structures erected last year, at a festival and major building event respectively, demonstrated how natural light could be used to generate renewable energy, inspired by or exploiting biomechanical methods

  • Graubünden’s new generation of architects comes of age

    3 March 2014

    The Swiss alpine canton of Graubünden is fast becoming a treasure trove of new and exciting architecture thanks to a crop of local practices that are emerging from the shadow of earlier, much-lauded, practitioners from the area, not least of which is Peter Zumthor

  • Veronica Simpson on community design projects

    19 February 2014

    Every so often architects and designers put caution – and fees – aside and tackle a project for the sheer love of seeing good design being put to the best possible use. Veronica Simpson looks at some inspired projects making a real difference

  • Two of a Kind: a new home for France’s FRAC art centre

    18 February 2014

    Quel surprise! The new home for one of France’s FRAC art centres realises a wild proposition from Paris-based practice Lacaton & Vassal - a doppelganger volume of a former shipyard hangar in the docklands of Dunkirk

  • Blueprint launches Blueprint for the Future competition

    14 February 2014

    Architecture and design students are invited to put their creative talents to creating a cycling ‘hub’ building and satellite hubs in Sheffield, to support the city’s drive to enhance its sustainable transport system and its cycling community. The VeloCity competition, run in conjunction with the British timber body TRADA, is offering a £5000 top prize

  • Post World’s End Architecture: Greece

    13 February 2014

    Though it's the birthplace of democracy, today Greek citizens find it a hard concept to believe in, living, as they do, in a country where financial independence is an impossible fiction, and where youth unemployment has reached staggering heights. Nevertheless, as the fourth instalment of Post World's End Architecture shows, an emergent architectural scene is transcending the economic situation with imagination and innovation

  • Blueprint for the Future: considering graphene

    4 February 2014

    In the first of a new series looking at the very latest materials and their likely impact on architecture, design and the wider world, Chris Lefteri turns his attention to graphene. Chris Lefteri is a designer and has written seven books about new materials and their applications