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Audi e-tron – Review
Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker takes a test drive in Audi’s latest plug-in hybrid, the A3 e-tron
Drawing a Line – Alexander McQueen’s drawings
As the major exhibition on the iconic work of British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, opens at the V&A, here we publish some of McQueen’s conceptual sketches and republish an essay by the director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Abraham Thomas. It appears with 27 other essays in the show’s catalogue book.
Meet: Camps Felip Arquitecturia
Catalan practice Camps Felip Arquitecturia is going from strength to strength after shaking off the shackles of the recession
Blueprint 20/20: Grimshaw’s Eden Project
For the second Blueprint 20/20, we gathered together many of the original protagonists of The Eden Project for an entertaining debate.
Talking Points
While we’re all heading off to MIPIM in Cannes, what did people make of the first MIPIM UK?
Rohan Silva on office spaces in London
Despite the number of small businesses and startups in the UK getting bigger and bigger, the property industry has failed to keep up. Rohan Silva, former technology adviser at Number 10, is on a mission to tackle the problem of inflexible, unimaginative office buildings, starting with his latest venture, Second Home, an office space designed by SelgasCano for creative businesses in Shoreditch.
History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain – Review
History is now is a group show in which seven artists were asked to consider Britain’s post-war history, from 1945 to the present day. Each artist – John Akomfrah, Simon Fujiwara, Roger Hiorns, Hannah Starkey, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Richard Wentworth – curated one room each. Blueprint caught up with Wentworth a couple of days before the show opened to the public
New wallpaper collection from print design practice Eley Kishimoto
Tagged ‘patron saints of print’ Eley Kishimoto look set to bring the same kind of radicalism to interiors that it has been doing in fashion for more than 20 years with the launch of its first wallpaper collection. This represents the latest chapter in a story which has seen the studio gain worldwide acclaim within a number of fields from fashion and interiors to architecture and design collaborations.