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Profile: Tom Dixon
on 6 July 2020The 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
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Discovering Samuel Ryde’s Hand Dryers
on 24 June 2020Blueprint discovers Samuel Ryde's delightful new book, Hand Dryers, and the story behind the images
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Desert rose: National Museum of Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel
on 25 June 2019Ateliers 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
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Meet Jun Aizaki, the man making coffee cups out of food
on 12 June 2019The work of Jun Aizaki's design firm Crème spans everything from organic coffee cups to pedestrian bridges
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West side story: inside New York's Hudson Yards
on 31 May 2019The 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
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Library in the clouds: Oodi by ALA Architects
on 24 January 2019In 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
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King's Cross Kit-Kats: Coal Drops Yard by Heatherwick Studio
on 23 November 2018The long-anticipated and Heatherwick Studio-designed shopping complex in King’s Cross, Coal Drops Yard, finally opens
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Red hot drama: Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology by McCullough Mulvin Architects
on 26 October 2018McCullough 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
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Ferrari: Under the Skin — review
on 6 February 2018The Design Museum’s Ferrari show may be a collector’s fantasy, but it fails to get under Blueprint’s skin
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Yoshino Cedar House by Airbnb and Go Hasegawa
on 6 June 2017Airbnb and architect Go Hasegawa have designed a cedar-wood house and given it to the village of Yoshino in rural Japan
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