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Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers review
14 June 2016Photographer Martin Parr has curated an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery about Britain as told from the viewpoint of foreign photographers. It’s a revelation, finds Herbert Wright
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The battle of Hastings Pier
14 June 2016Once grand statements of Victorian seaside towns’ confidence and bravado, piers, like the towns themselves, are now often neglected and down-at-heel. In Hastings, however, the fire-damaged pier has risen from the ashes thanks to the local community and dRMM architects
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The Grand Entrance Hall, Brunel Museum / Tate Harmer
9 June 2016Designed when he was a teenager, with his father Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s very first project - the Thames Tunnel, spanning 396m underwater - was a world first. Celebrated with underground fairs and banquets before being converted for steam trains, its entrance shaft has lain inaccessible and unused for more than 150 years. Now, thanks to a new entrance and staircase by Tate Harmer, it is welcoming revellers once again
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Pablo Bronstein: A Choreography of Errors
9 June 2016Pablo Bronstein’s works explore themes arising from the baroque and postmodern in media including drawings, installations and choreography. Between rehearsals for his Tate Britain commission, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, Herbert Wright had the pleasure of an audience with him, and an opportunity to enquire about the new production, and sundry diverse matters
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Listen: Patricia Brown
2 June 2016Chair of the London Festival of Architecture, on all through this month, Patricia Brown argues that in order to meet housing needs, London must build much more densely but, crucially, without losing the character that makes the capital unique
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15th Venice Architecture Biennale preview
2 June 2016Ahead of our full coverage in the next Blueprint (347), we preview some of the highlights of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by this year’s Pritzker Prize winner, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. Running until November, the theme Reporting from the Front focuses on frontlines across the world where architects and communities are faced with complex challenges and urban issues
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Salone del Mobile, Milan review
23 May 2016Editor Johnny Tucker and London Design Guide author Max Fraser pounded the pavements and piazzas to bring you the best design the city had to offer
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Patrick Schumacher: Zaha’s incredible moves
23 May 2016Patrik Schumacher, a director of Zaha Hadid Architects, reflects on the startling curves and audacious moves that made Zaha Hadid’s work so compelling and daringly new to the profession
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Sainsbury’s Digital Lab by Chetwoods Architects
16 May 2016Maintaining a happy and productive workforce of digital creatives is one thing, but housing them in the basement is another. Sainsbury’s Digital Lab manages to do just that, thanks to a unique, collaborative design by Chetwoods Architects that repurposed unused underground space beneath a London office block. Herbert Wright digs out the story
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Meet: Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
16 May 2016Cate St Hill gets to know Swedish practice Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, which has just completed a curvaceous new school of architecture in Stockholm
