• All change: UNStudio’s Arnhem Central station

    8 March 2016

    The final element in UNStudio’s new Arnhem Central station has now opened, completing a 20-year project that gives the Netherlands’ city an integrated transport hub...and some radical architecture. Herbert Wright toured the project with UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel.

  • Review: England’s Post-War Listed Buildings

    1 March 2016

    A new book by Elain Harwood profiles England’s extraordinary variety of buildings listed after 1945, from humble prefabs to top-secret Cold War bunkers

  • Crystal clear vision: Lee Broom

    1 March 2016

    With a background in theatre and fashion, Lee Broom, designer of interiors, furniture and products, has combined elements of both worlds to create a unique brand that is advancing in an intriguing upward trajectory

  • Daydream believer: Theaster Gates

    22 February 2016

    Theaster Gates, artist and activist, has demonstrated that grass-roots architecture and culture can be a powerful force for activating human capital in the city. Artists often like to dream the impossible — but few go out and make it happen

  • Gasholder Park, London by Bell Phillips Architects

    22 February 2016

    Once part of the largest gasworks in the world, one surviving gasholder in King’s Cross has been brought back to life in the regenerating area as the lawn-filled Gasholder Park, by Bell Phillips Architects. Cate St Hill reports

  • Curated Diary: Achim Borchardt-Hume

    15 February 2016

    Director of exhibitions at Tate Modern, Achim Borchardt-Hume picks his top art and design events across the world for the new year

  • Blueprint 20/20: High Line by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    15 February 2016

    Celebrating the launch of Phaidon’s The High Line book - also designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro - Blueprint brought Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio together at London’s Architectural Association to discuss this most vaunted of public-realm, urban regeneration projects of the 21st century

  • Review: Shenzhen Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale 2015

    9 February 2016

    Herbert Wright travels to the Aaron Betsky-curated event, finding it well worth the trip, even just to see where China’s unprecedented urbanisation has led.

  • This is Temporary: Transient Architecture

    9 February 2016

    Temporary architecture has been appearing and disappearing more and more in urban public spaces. Many such structures have been branded ‘pop-ups’, follies to provide a moment of light entertainment and camera-ready delight. But there is a long history of a more holistic type of temporary architecture that subtly suggests how we could live, work and play more harmoniously. Here we feature an extract from Cate St Hill’s new book, published by the RIBA, including interviews with 13 exciting, young, socially minded architects, designers and multidisciplinary collectives, making and building their own way.

  • BALTIC Ryder Commission in collaboration with Blueprint

    2 February 2016

    Johnny Tucker interviews architects Mike Oades and Derek Draper of Atomik Architecture and artist Alice Theobald, who have jointly created the first BALTIC Ryder Commission in collaboration with Blueprint