• Review: Jawbone UP3

    5 October 2015

    Johnny Tucker finds he is healthier and fitter after putting Jawbone’s UP3 wearable and state-of-the-art sensors to the test

  • 2015 graduates: Blueprint’s ones to watch

    30 September 2015

    Our team of architects, designers and critics - comprised of Gemma Barton, Eddie Blake, Holly Lewis, Sam McElhinney, Hugh McEwen, Emmett Scanlon, Maria Smith, Elly Ward - has scoured the UK to bring you the very best of the graduate work on offer this year and tip you off on the ones to watch for the future...

  • Thinking inside the box: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s The Broad

    22 September 2015

    Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s latest building — The Broad art gallery — has just opened in Los Angeles. Unusually free to visit, it’s both a gallery and an introduction to art curation for a collection that travels the world on loan. The top gallery floor is also a joy to behold with its exquisite handling of natural light

  • Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Lounge, LAX

    7 September 2015

    Airline Virgin Atlantic has followed its posh-class lounges at Newark and JFK airports with its latest at Los Angeles. After an underwhelming walk through the airport to find it, Johnny Tucker headed into the bright new space, designed by New York practice Slade Architecture.

  • 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...

  • 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