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Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers review
Photographer Martin Parr has curated an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery about Britain as told from the viewpoint of foreign photographers. It’s a revelation, finds Herbert Wright
The battle of Hastings Pier
Once grand statements of Victorian seaside towns’ confidence and bravado, piers, like the towns themselves, are now often neglected and down-at-heel. In Hastings, however, the fire-damaged pier has risen from the ashes thanks to the local community and dRMM architects
Pablo Bronstein: A Choreography of Errors
Pablo Bronstein’s works explore themes arising from the baroque and postmodern in media including drawings, installations and choreography. Between rehearsals for his Tate Britain commission, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, Herbert Wright had the pleasure of an audience with him, and an opportunity to enquire about the new production, and sundry diverse matters
The Grand Entrance Hall, Brunel Museum / Tate Harmer
Designed when he was a teenager, with his father Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s very first project – the Thames Tunnel, spanning 396m underwater – was a world first. Celebrated with underground fairs and banquets before being converted for steam trains, its entrance shaft has lain inaccessible and unused for more than 150 years. Now, thanks to a new entrance and staircase by Tate Harmer, it is welcoming revellers once again
15th Venice Architecture Biennale preview
Ahead of our full coverage in the next Blueprint (347), we preview some of the highlights of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by this year’s Pritzker Prize winner, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. Running until November, the theme Reporting from the Front focuses on frontlines across the world where architects and communities are faced with complex challenges and urban issues
Listen: Patricia Brown
Chair of the London Festival of Architecture, on all through this month, Patricia Brown argues that in order to meet housing needs, London must build much more densely but, crucially, without losing the character that makes the capital unique
If Only…The value of cross-disciplinary collaboration
Emma Flynn of Astudio describes Tomorrow’s City, a collaborative vision for future cities.
Salone del Mobile, Milan review
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
Patrick Schumacher: Zaha’s incredible moves
Patrik Schumacher, a director of Zaha Hadid Architects, reflects on the startling curves and audacious moves that made Zaha Hadid’s work so compelling and daringly new to the profession
Sainsbury’s Digital Lab by Chetwoods Architects
Maintaining a happy and productive workforce of digital creatives is one thing, but housing them in the basement is another. Sainsbury’s Digital Lab manages to do just that, thanks to a unique, collaborative design by Chetwoods Architects that repurposed unused underground space beneath a London office block. Herbert Wright digs out the story