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Profile: Tom Dixon

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:34:00 GMT

The road less travelled — From metal-bashing artist to design doyen, Tom Dixon has taken a unique path through the design industry, that has included everything from playing in a band and running nightclubs, to being the creative head of high-street design stalwart Habitat

Discovering Samuel Ryde’s Hand Dryers

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:50:00 GMT

Blueprint discovers Samuel Ryde's delightful new book, Hand Dryers, and the story behind the images

Desert rose: National Museum of Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:33:59 GMT

Ateliers Jean Nouvel’s new National Museum of Qatar in Doha is an overtly dramatic, yet at the same time gentle, structure based on naturally occurring desert rose mineral formations

Meet Jun Aizaki, the man making coffee cups out of food

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:29:00 GMT

The work of Jun Aizaki's design firm Crème spans everything from organic coffee cups to pedestrian bridges

West side story: inside New York's Hudson Yards

Fri, 31 May 2019 14:23:00 GMT

The northern end of New York’s High Line is now capped off by a massive $25bn mixed-use development called Hudson Yards. On its cusp is The Shed, a Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed arts building, at its heart is the Heatherwick Studio-designed Vessel and in its shopping mall is the Snark Park, by Snarkitecture

Library in the clouds: Oodi by ALA Architects

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:18:00 GMT

In Finland the right to visit a library has been enshrined in law for almost a century. Now in Helsinki, ALA Architects has created the crown jewel of libraries, Oodi, on the most prime piece of real estate in the country. Don’t expect too many books though — that’s just not what the modern library is all about

King's Cross Kit-Kats: Coal Drops Yard by Heatherwick Studio

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:46:00 GMT

The long-anticipated and Heatherwick Studio-designed shopping complex in King’s Cross, Coal Drops Yard, finally opens

Red hot drama: Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology by McCullough Mulvin Architects

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:58:00 GMT

McCullough Mulvin Architects’ new project for the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology features dramatic accommodation blocks in red, a connective walkway and landscaping that responds to the scorching climate, expressing both Mughal and modernist architectural influences with a 21st-century sensibility

Ferrari: Under the Skin — review

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:43:17 GMT

The Design Museum’s Ferrari show may be a collector’s fantasy, but it fails to get under Blueprint’s skin

Yoshino Cedar House by Airbnb and Go Hasegawa

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:43:54 GMT

Airbnb and architect Go Hasegawa have designed a cedar-wood house and given it to the village of Yoshino in rural Japan