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Letter from… Copenhagen
Denmark’s global presence in design owes much to the country’s greatest modernist, Arne Jacobsen, who created a family of design classics in his furniture for Fritz Hansen. Herbert Wright checks out his architectural legacy in the Nordic bastion of urban cool that is the capital Copenhagen, and experiences colours that are reinvigorating Danish design, and the world’s favourite chair
Neocon: Home of the office
Bisley’s director of design, Chris Fowler, reports on trends and good taste at the largest commercial interiors show in North America.
Talking Points: How do you feel about hot-desking?
Lee Day, design director of Sketch Studios, says that the loss of personalised workspace has been replaced with something more powerful.
A cut above: Zaha Hadid’s Messner Mountain Museum
The latest Zaha Hadid project is modest in size and half-invisible from the outside. Situated in an Italian mountainscape, the Messner Mountain Museum bridges one of her earliest designs with her most recent
The Future of the Skyscraper
Architecture practice Skidmore Owings & Merrill invited nine writers and journalists to ponder the future of tall buildings. Thomas Wensing reviews the result
Review: Jawbone UP3
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
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…
Profile: Mike Grubb
Francis Pearce reports on the work of lighting designer Mike Grubb, and discusses with him the idea of recycling kit into projects.
On the map: Artist Kristjana S Williams
Artist Kristjana S Williams, a trained surveyor and a graduate of Central Saint Martins, has loved maps since she was a child, and now combines that love with art in a unique and vibrant translation of cartography for, among others, Osborne & Little, Sennheiser, The Connaught hotel and now the Shard.