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Dim Sum Towers – Heatherwick Studio’s Learning Hub in Singapore
15 June 2015The Thomas Heatherwick Studio has just completed a building for the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with the specific intention of it not being anything like any other university building in existence so far. With the Learning Hub’s stacks of circular spaces, its nickname of Dim Sum Towers, given by the students, seems particularly apt
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Review – All of This Belongs to You, V&A
15 June 2015The V&A’s latest exhibition ‘All of This Belongs to You’ uses spectacular commissions, recent acquistions and historical objects to propose a critical, democratic discourse around issues of publicness, privacy and ownership. Shumi Bose finds the ethos of the show to have its roots in the museum’s radical past, as well as pointing the way forwards for its East London future...
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Curated diary – Sean Scully
15 June 2015Dublin-born contemporary artist Sean Scully picks his top art and design events for the coming months
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Camper’s Life on Foot: Zonzo, the city where you can get lost, and the wasting of time
15 June 2015Francesco Careri, founder of architecture collective Stalker and research network Osservatorio Nomade - that carries out walks in the ‘indeterminate’ or void spaces of the city - ponders the meaning of Zonzo, a city of flaneurs as described by Walter Benjamin. The text is taken from The Walking Society, the wide-ranging catalogue that accompanies the Design Museum’s exhibition on Spanish footwear brand Camper, entitled Life on Foot
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Blueprint interiors - The latest in kitchens and bathrooms
4 June 2015Johnny Tucker uncovers food-inspired works of art plus, the latest in kitchens and bathrooms.
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Milan Expo 2015: The Pavilions – the best of the rest
2 June 2015Blueprint brings you the best of the rest of the pavilions from the 2015 Milan Expo.
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Review: Milan Salone 2015
26 May 2015Johnny Tucker was in Milan for Design Week and its lighting component, Euroluce, and serves up his pick of this year’s crop.
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Milan Expo 2015: from Blueprint’s point of view
26 May 2015Milan Expo 2015 offered an indigestible banquet of overblown audio-visual gimmicks and kitsch excess, with huge inconsistencies of architectural and design innovation and liberal helpings of blatant self-promotion. And yet there was much to intrigue and entertain. Veronica Simpson reaches for the Rennies….
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Process – The making of Wolfgang Buttress’ UK Pavilion
26 May 2015For the Milan Expo this year, artist Wolfgang Buttress has created a multimedia Hive inspired by the British Bumblebee. Cate St Hill met manufacturer Stage One at its workshop in Yorkshire before the complex structure was taken to Milan.
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Digital Double - Jason Bruges Studio
27 April 2015As part of the GREAT Britain campaign, Jason Bruges Studio worked with Benchmark to create a digital version of the iconic Number 10 door for one morning in February
