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Designer Rodney Fitch dies
Retail design guru who founded design consultancy Fitch died on Monday 20 October
Gerald McLean: photographing the Gherkin
Designed by Foster + Partners and opened in April 2004, 30 St Mary Axe has become a truly iconic building. Photographer Gerald McLean returns to one of his favourite subjects and tells us why he loves ‘The Gherkin’.
Outtakes from Beatles’ classic Abbey Road album cover
Set of six photographs commissioned from Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan (1938-2006) as possible designs for the album’s front cover – together with the Abbey Road street sign used on the back cover are to be sold at auction
Stirling Prize for Architecture – which building should win?
The editorial team at Blueprint magazine to tell us which of the six shortlisted buildings they think should win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize – the UK’s most prestigious award for architecture – and why
10 must-see buildings at this weekend’s Open House Chicago
See inside some of the city’s architectural gems at this weekend’s event, which gives access to 150 of Chicago’s best buildings
Blueprint Awards 2014 – the winners
We announce the winners of the first Blueprint Awards for architecture and design
Could this design do away with door keys?
Fed up rooting through your bag for your keys? Or wondering where in the house you’ve left them? Well, this new electronic lock, which you can control with your smartphone, could be the answer to your problems.
Royal Academy celebrates the best British buildings of the last 100 years
In partnership with the Twentieth Century Society the RA has chosen a single building for each year from 1914 to the present, showing some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century
Is this the best building designed in 2014?
This year’s world Architecture Festival has named The Chapel in Vietnam – a community centre made largely of re-used materials – World Building of the Year.
New Tube: London’s next generation of underground trains
Specialist transport designers Priestmangoode have released pictures of their fancy new Tube Trains