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Xiqu Centre and the evolution of Hong Kong's new arts hub
15 May 2019Hong Kong’s Xiqu Centre — designed by Revery Architecture and Ronald Lu & Partners — is the first project to complete as part of the city’s ambitious new arts neighbourhood, the West Kowloon Cultural District
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The rise of the flying car
9 May 2019Say goodbye to sitting in traffic jams, as flying cars are on their way. From as early as next year, these vehicles — once the sole preserve of sci-fi films — will start to be rolled out. But what are the challenges — and will our city skies really be full of cars soon?
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Gimme shelter: how are architects tackling homelessness?
29 April 2019Designs for high-end housing and bespoke home extensions are ten a penny in the architecture world, but what are today’s practices doing to address the homelessness crisis? From temporary housing and modular pods to a digital platform tackling bureaucratic boundaries, we look at the innovative designs developed by architects for those without homes
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Turning corn husks into colourful furniture: meet Fernando Laposse
25 April 2019Debika Ray speaks to designer Fernando Laposse about his work harnessing natural materials in
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The weird and wonderful world of 'bubbletecture'
18 April 2019Phaidon’s new book Bubbletecture takes us inside the world of inflatable architecture and design
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Desert art: Bombay Beach Biennale and the revival of a forgotten town
12 April 2019In 2016, Stefan Ashkenazy and friends set up an annual, anti-biennale arts festival in the California desert, the Bombay Beach Biennale. Its ambitions soon grew into a project of permanent cultural regeneration, bringing life back to this abandoned town by the once-popular Salton Sea
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Making waves: Blueprint meets Dorte Mandrup
9 April 2019With a trio of buildings for the Unesco-protected Wadden Sea and a bold glacier visitor centre in Iceland, Dorte Mandrup’s eponymous practice is fast becoming a specialist in water projects. But alongside climate conscious innovation, there is contradiction and unpredictability among the Danish studio’s works
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Curved, cantilevered concrete: Thomas P Murphy Design Studio by Arquitectonica
29 March 2019Arquitectonica’s studio for the University of Miami architecture faculty is both dramatic and minimal, gestural and functional
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The Blueprint curated diary: Owen Hopkins
28 March 2019Sir John Soane’s Museum senior curator Owen Hopkins selects this spring’s best shows and events
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Welcome to M9, Italy’s first all-digital history museum
25 March 2019The unglamorous dormitory town of Mestre, which houses most of Venice’s workers, has just launched Italy’s first all-digital history museum: the M9 Museum of the 20th Century, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton