• Ice Lab: Architecture and Science

    23 July 2013

    Combatting the heatwave currently wilting the rest of the country, The Lighthouse in Glasgow is taking a distinctly chilly turn this week, as it opens the exhibition ‘Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica’, commissioned by the British Council. This internationally touring exhibition is intended to provide visitors an insight into how innovative contemporary architecture is facilitating new research in one of the world’s most harsh and hostile environments – Antarctica.

  • No Apologies: Farrell on location at MI6

    22 July 2013

    On 27 June, the inaugural event in Blueprint’s new 20/20 series took place with Sir Terry Farrell invited to talk about one of his most influential contributions to the London skyline – the SIS or Secret Intelligence Service HQ, more commonly known as MI6 building.

  • Canal houses, Cookies & Consultation: in conversation with DUS Architects

    18 July 2013

    ‘A dome of umbrellas to trigger a spontaneous street party. A floating structure of ‘China Bags’ to encourage cultural exchange. A pavilion made of soap bubbles that only appears when people build it. DUS Architects is anything but an architecture firm in the traditional sense.’

  • Roots Manoeuvre: Design & Build workshop at WOMAD

    17 July 2013

    As the festival season starts to get into full swing, one field-based music event in particular is targeting architects and would-be architects to get back to basics and go hands on.

  • The Mobile Orchard by Atmos

    15 July 2013

    It’s a tree but not as we know it. It’s not alive, but it offers fruit. The Mobile Orchard is an installation by atmos that has been touring in July’s City of London Festival, here snapped from Devonshire Square and beside 30 St Mary Axe. Next month, the Mobile Orchard goes nationwide with Trees for Cities, a charity dedicated to planting urban trees – check out their itinerary when it emerges.

  • Design of the Year 2013: People’s Choice

    5 July 2013

    2013 has seen the first opportunity for the public to vote for their Design of the Year at the Design Museum. From an impressive and wide ranging 99 entries to choose from, the exhibition threw power to the people to choose their favourite product of 2012/2013.

  • Joining the Dots at the Building Centre

    2 July 2013

    FX & Blueprint Drawing Competition: The results

    Drawings, before language, are primarily tools to communicate; they can be instructive, function as propaganda, or act as the testimony of laborious acts of love. As powerful as digital rendering software can be, there’s nothing as visceral as a hand-drawn sketch to convey an idea and some of its energy.

  • Making the Leadenhall Building: VIDEO & exclusive diary

    19 June 2013

    The Leadenhall building, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is currently the tallest building in the increasingly vertiginous City of London (for the moment at least).

  • Obstacles, Chaos & Joy: Yuki Sumner on Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion

    18 June 2013

    Prompting a flood of excuses from the gallery staff, a rhetorical question was posed by a woman in the audience at the end of the public talk given by Sou Fujimoto, at this year’s Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion.

  • LFA event: Shared Spaces & Learning from Poynton

    13 June 2013

    The London Festival of Architecture is well underway and amongst its many offerings is a discussion that will explore the important idea of shared spaces and how these are created successfully.