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Review: Alexander Girard at the Vitra Design Museum
30 August 2016The vast oeuvre of American-born designer Alexander Girard, from textiles and interior design to graphics and typography, is portrayed in this exhibition at the Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein
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Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners office, Leadenhall / RSH+P
30 August 2016After 30 years in Hammersmith, Richard Roger’s practice has relocated to one of its newest and most iconic buildings, the Leadenhall Building in the heart of the City of London. The new office consolidates the workplace for 200 staff, creates a dynamic, refreshing environment and reasserts the practice’s ‘reveal-all’ approach to design. Herbert Wright reports
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Blueprint innovation: 16 interviews with international architects
17 August 2016We asked 16 international architects what innovation means to them and why it is important to their work. Including: Paola Antonellli, Shigeru Ban, Odile Decq, Liz Diller, Andre Fu, Jeanne Gang, Reinier de Graaf, Francine Houben, Kengo Kuma, Tom Kundig, Daniel Libeskind, Nieto Sobejano, Michael Pawlyn, Monica von Schmalensee, Aaron Taylor Harvey, Sarah Wigglesworth
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Blueprint innovation: Engineers + Architects
17 August 2016Innovative design and computational technologies have helped to generate a far more collaborative and mutually enriching way of working between architects and engineers. Zaha Hadid director Patrik Schumacher and BuroHappold’s Wolf Mangelsdorf invite us in on a conversation charting this evolutionary trajectory
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Blueprint Innovation: Architects + Research
15 August 2016Research and practice have rarely had much to do with each other in architecture. But an increase in the number of practices, of all sizes, whose investment in research has paid off not just in enriching their working environment but also in the scope and scale of their paid projects, could signal a welcome sea change
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Listen: George Ferguson
9 August 2016George Ferguson is an architect and a former RIBA president, who has just concluded four years running Bristol city as elected mayor. Not aligned with any political party, he used his independent status to implement radical transport, education and outreach schemes and partnerships during his time, aimed at creating a more resilient, connected and healthy city. His grand finale was devising and hosting Bristol’s European Green capital 2015 programme, harnessing the city’s rich creative, social and intellectual capital to generate enthusiasm for sustainable living
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Switching place: Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension
1 August 2016Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000. The new Switch House’s angular geometry, permeability, movement and, materiality are explored by Herbert Wright, who also earlier talked to its architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
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Blueprint reviews Alejandro Aravena’s 15th Venice Architecture Biennale
1 August 2016We share the very best of this year’s festival, curated by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena with the theme Reporting from the Front, and find a distinctive move away from starchitecture in favour of socially minded projects and research
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Engineering the world: Ove Arup and the philosophy of total design
25 July 2016London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings engineering to the fore with a retrospective exhibition on the prolific engineer Sir Ove Arup and his hugely successful practice
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Apple Store, San Francisco / Foster + Partners
20 July 2016Meticulous store meets meticulous architecture practice, with Apple’s commission for its signature store in San Francisco going to Foster + Partners. It is the practice’s first chance to show off its longstanding collaboration with Apple in the US, and the first retail outing for a new glass technology it has developed for the Apple campus nearby
