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Jestico + Whiles design a hidden speakeasy in Manchester’s Corn Exchange
A bar/restaurant with the feel of a hidden speakeasy has been created by Jestico + Whiles in Manchester’s former Corn Exchange building. With trading ceasing after the Second World War, it is now a dining destination for a vibrant city
V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma Associates
In Dundee, the V&A’s only museum outside of London is about to open, bringing ambitious exhibitions and stories of design and how it shapes lives to many more people than previously possible
Levitt Bernstein unites a campus to unite the community
Due to a major redevelopment scheme at UCL Faculty of Laws by architecture practice Levitt Bernstein, the separate buildings of Bentham House and the Gideon Schreier wing now form a cohesive and contemporary complex for the law department of University College London
The Blueprint curated diary: Jan Boelen
Curator of this year’s Istanbul Design Biennial, Jan Boelen shares his highlights for the autumn
Squire and Partners weave 6 Warwick Street into Soho’s creative scene
Squire and Partners set out to rework this Soho office building to reflect the area’s inherent creativity and its past inhabitants with a new facade and interiors inspired by Soho habitué Francis Bacon and his fellow Colony Room Clubbers
Preview: London Design Festival 2018
Blueprint rounds up the highlights of what to see at this year’s London Design Festival (15–23 September)
And then there was light…
Jill Entwistle reports on updates to lighting products creating artificial daylight, and indeed offering night time scenarios too
Christabel Balfour: One to Watch in September
Christabel Balfour weaves the city and the landscape into her work, simplifying their inherent complexities to the fundamentals
‘The ultimate makerspace’: UCL Here East by Hawkins\Brown
UCL’s new outpost at Here East in Stratford has been designed by Hawkins\Brown to facilitate innovation and cross-disciplinarity, with a 2,000 sq m prototyping laboratory