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Fixing a hole: Fixperts profile
20 April 2017Every idea has its day, and Fixperts is an idea whose momentum has truly arrived. In 2016, the open-source fixing evangelists picked up a major Blueprint award, and trialled a whole new teaching programme around making for arts-starved UK schools. With the BBC recently launching its Big Life Fix, showing design professionals as they tackle real-life problems, it appears that fixing as a universal act of ingenuity and resistance – countering the culture of empty consumerism and built-in obsolescence – is going mainstream
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Europa building in Brussels by Philippe Samyn
10 April 2017The EU’s new Europa building is the most important new centre of political power built this century, and a marked departure from the modernist Brussels blocks that have housed Eurocrats so far. Designed to be a symbolic landmark, it not only integrates past elements in unexpected ways and visibly conveys sustainability, but also presents a poetic form behind an extraordinary screen facade. Its architect Philippe Samyn has sought to make it joyful.
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Review: Wang Shu at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
10 April 2017The first in a new series at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art focusing on a new generation of architects that are responding to the world around us, explores the work of Chinese architect Wang Shu
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Listen: Tom Lloyd
7 April 2017The term 'design thinking' is central to the creative process and can help a designer look at a problem or process from the point of view of the user experience, says Tom Lloyd, of practice PearsonLloyd.
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Meet: Rural Urban Framework
7 April 2017Hong Kong-based Rural Urban Framework has won the RIBA’s first International Emerging Architect prize for its work on new models of rural development in China
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Lucienne Day centenary celebrations
7 April 2017Lucienne Day is well known as one half of Britain’s most celebrated, and most glamorous, designer couple, the Days. But while the power of the couple was instrumental in their image-making, Lucienne showed a determination to be recognised as an independent designer. She was the first textile designer to have her name printed on her fabrics and helped shape the practice of design into what it is today. As a year-long programme of events and exhibitions kicks off to mark the centenary of her birth, we reflect on her legacy.
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Blueprint seminar with Poliform UK
31 March 2017Blueprint and Poliform UK bring together a group of designers at the brand’s King’s Road showroom to discuss the similarities and differences between interior design and architecture practice
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Review: Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
29 March 2017Established Scandinavian brands are supporting younger, up-and-coming designers, discovers Cate St Hill at this year’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
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Imagine Moscow at Design Museum, London
29 March 2017A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London explores six unbuilt architectural landmarks in Moscow, imagined during the Twenties and Thirties following the Russian Revolution
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Exhibition: Sacred Geometries
22 March 2017Sacred Geometries at the Anise Gallery explores architecture through photography via Plato, and includes work from long-time Blueprint contributor Paul Raftery.
