• The best new railway station design

    31 October 2013

    After 100 years of relative neglect, train stations have been revived and reinvented as gleaming modern expressions of speed and sustainability. Veronica Simpson puts on her parka for a bit of station spotting

  • Scottish talent on show at new BA Airport Lounge

    7 October 2013

    The work of Scottish craftsmen and artists play a major part in a new £80,000 BA business-class lounge at Glasgow Airport, designed by Glasgow-based practice Graven Images.

  • Review response delights Sir Terry Farrell

    3 October 2013

    The response to the Farrell Review consultation has delighted the review chairman Sir Terry Farrell. It has had a very positive response, both to the online Call for Evidence and workshops held up and down the country, says his office.

  • In pictures: Battersea Power Station

    26 September 2013

    Photographer Alex Bland captures London’s iconic Battersea Power Station as it is lit up to advertise a new programme featuring survival expert Bear Grylls.

  • Zaha Hadid work comes to stay with Serpentine Sackler Gallery

    9 September 2013

    The Serpentine’s new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid, is set to open at the end of this month in Kensington Gardens.

  • Hi-Macs helps to transform Handel’s music to architecture

    9 September 2013

    Architecture practice Gerhards & Gluecker take inspiration from Handel’s music to reconstruct his museum at the baroque Handel House, a museum in the town of Halle an der Saale, Saxony where Handel was born.

  • Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road named World’s Coolest Car Park

    19 August 2013

    It has its own fashion boutique and tropical garden, has hosted weddings and has been likened to a giant house of cards - now Miami parking garage 1111 Lincoln Road by architects Herzog & de Meuron has been named the World's Coolest Car Park.

  • Global Design Forum: Industry, Creativity and Government at LDF

    15 August 2013

    Blueprint is pleased to be a media partner for the second Global Design Forum, which this year brings together creatives like Peter Saville, Jamie Hayon, Ross Lovegrove, John Hegarty and Michael Young with industry and government figures, for two days of design discussions.

  • Artist Decorators: The Grantchester Pottery at the ICA

    13 August 2013

    Tucked away beneath the stairs at the ICA, there is a small room that has been taken over by decorators. This little area has been transformed into a space that is bursting with intense colour – much in contrast with the rest of the stark white gallery.

  • Keeping Time: Conrad Shawcross at the Roundhouse

    2 August 2013

    The first thing that hits you, as you walk into the newest installation at Camden’s renowned Roundhouse, is a sense of void; a deafening silence envelops as your eyes accustom to the shadowy space. Suspended from the centre of the room is the only illuminating feature in an otherwise completely darkened room. This is British artist Conrad Shawcross’ newest kinetic artwork: Timepiece, a eight-metre wide rotating mechanism, glinting in the dark.