• Carmody Groarke at Glyndebourne

    24 August 2015

    A long-time showcase for opera productions, Glyndebourne is now in a three-year collaboration with the White Cube gallery to add a season-long showing of art, launching with work by Georg Baselitz, in an on-site pop-up gallery designed by Carmody Groarke. Cate St Hill reports

  • Listen – Peter Murray

    24 August 2015

    London cyclists are being killed at a rate of more than one a month: Peter Murray argues that better design thinking and more investment in the physical infrastructure for cyclists is desperately needed, though he is beginning to see a positive change in attitudes. Peter Murray is the chairman of New London Architecture and a founder of Blueprint

  • Margate’s Phoenix – Margate’s Dreamland reopens

    17 August 2015

    From opening as a restaurant and dance hall in 1863, to finally closing — though not for good — in 2005, it’s been quite a ride for Margate’s Dreamland. The first phase of the new £28m development, which includes £18m of public funding, is now complete and the fun park is pulling in the punters again. Project designer Wayne Hemingway gives us a personal take on the journey, so far...

  • A House for Essex by Grayson Perry and FAT Architecture

    17 August 2015

    Created by artist Grayson Perry in collaboration with FAT Architecture, A House for Essex is ‘a Taj Mahal on the Stour’, its interiors charting the life of Essex everywoman Julie Cope, and is her final resting place. Commissioned by Alain de Botton and joining Living Architecture’s portfolio of holiday lets, the building is not only FAT’s final work, but a suitably ‘bonkers’ addition to the north Essex landscape

  • Curated Diary – Elizabeth Neilson

    10 August 2015

    London-based curator and writer Elizabeth Neilson picks her top art and design events for the summer

  • Review – London Festival of Architecture

    10 August 2015

    Cate St Hill visits two events as part of this year’s architecture showcase: a focus on Irish design and a playful exhibition by Assemble and artist Simon Terrill

  • Designers in Residence 2015

    3 August 2015

    Responding to the Design Museum’s 2015 Designers in Residence theme of Migration, the four practising designers selected for the residency by a panel including Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker, explain here their ideas and motivations. Their resulting work will be on show in a shared exhibition running at the museum from 9 September, ending on 31 March next year, when the museum itself migrates to its new home in the former Commonweath Institute, Holland Park. Johnny Tucker spoke to the residents

  • All that glisters – OMA galleries in Milan and Moscow

    3 August 2015

    Since 2004, Prada and OMA have co-produced some amazing spaces, from catwalk sets to temporary museums, metamorphing stages to concept stores. At 19,000 sq m, the Fondazione Prada’s new campus for contemporary art is their biggest collaboration yet. And it’s made of foam and gold. We go prospecting in the southern fringes of Milan

  • A degree of success – University of Melbourne’s new Faculty of Architecture

    27 July 2015

    A collaboration between architecture practices John Wardle Architects (Australia) and NADAAA (USA) for the new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne aims to give a sensitive response to the institution’s heritage campus and former School of Architecture with its 19th-century facade, while realising a ‘built pedagogy’

  • Technicolor Dream – Selgascano’s Serpentine Pavilion

    21 July 2015

    For the Serpentine Galleries’ 15th annual summer pavilion, Madrid practice selgascano has created a kaleidoscopic, chrysalis-like structure drawing inspiration from the constant, chaotic movement of London and the various unique structures that have previously stood on the Galleries’ lawn