• Blueprint innovation: 16 interviews with international architects

    17 August 2016

    We asked 16 international architects what innovation means to them and why it is important to their work. Including: Paola Antonellli, Shigeru Ban, Odile Decq, Liz Diller, Andre Fu, Jeanne Gang, Reinier de Graaf, Francine Houben, Kengo Kuma, Tom Kundig, Daniel Libeskind, Nieto Sobejano, Michael Pawlyn, Monica von Schmalensee, Aaron Taylor Harvey, Sarah Wigglesworth

  • Blueprint 20/20: Ron Arad’s Rover chair

    23 June 2016

    In March Blueprint brought Ron Arad back to his alma mater, London’s Architectural Association, for a 20/20 talk. The idea behind 20/20 is that architects and designers expound with the benefit of perfect vision - hindsight - on a project which changed the course of their career. Ron Arad chose the Rover chair

  • Salone del Mobile, Milan review

    23 May 2016

    Editor 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

  • Hide and Seek – OMA’s Timmerhuis

    9 May 2016

    Almost as soon as the bombs that all but obliterated Rotterdam had stopped falling, the redevelopment of the city began and it’s been going on ever since. The latest addition is the Timmerhuis - a ‘floating cloud of steel and glass’ by OMA, that seems to hide itself in the fabric of the city

  • Montblanc, Hamburg by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance

    26 April 2016

    Luxury pen maker Montblanc has just opened its latest store, its European flagship, in Hamburg, the company’s hometown. Designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance had the task of translating the brand’s detailing and narrative into its latest retail environment, ready for a roll-out through its other stores. Johnny Tucker reports

  • Letter from… San Francisco

    22 March 2016

    Johnny Tucker writes from San Francisco - the home of the digital start-up. But is the tide beginning to turn against these icompanies? Raging wage wars to attract the world’s best staff, mean regular Joe’s are being priced out of the city, unable to afford rocketing rent and house prices...

  • 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

  • Rain Room by Random International review

    23 November 2015

    Random International’s popular experiential Rain Room travels across the world to the Yuz Museum Shanghai. Johnny Tucker pays a visit and tries not to get soaked

  • Blueprint Seminar: World Toilet Day with ROCA

    16 November 2015

    To mark World Toilet Day on 19 November and highlight the aims of Roca’s We Are Water Foundation, Blueprint gathered together a panel of experts to discuss sanitation in developing countries and disaster areas. The conversation at the Roca London Gallery ranged from the future of sanitation without sewers, through gender issues, to the delivery of life-changing projects

  • London Design Festival: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s Samsung Serif TV

    16 November 2015

    The Bouroullec brothers unveiled their first electronic product at this year’s festival, a sleek television set for Samsung, that’s more a covetable design object than a piece of technological innovation