All articles by Mamata Paira
Mamata Paira
Global Design Forum: Industry, Creativity and Government at LDF
Blueprint is pleased to be a media partner for the second Global Design Forum, which this year brings together creatives like Peter Saville, Jamie Hayon, Ross Lovegrove, John Hegarty and Michael Young with industry and government figures, for two days of design discussions.
Artist Decorators: The Grantchester Pottery at the ICA
Tucked away beneath the stairs at the ICA, there is a small room that has been taken over by decorators. This little area has been transformed into a space that is bursting with intense colour – much in contrast with the rest of the stark white gallery.
Ice Lab: Architecture and Science
Combatting the heatwave currently wilting the rest of the country, The Lighthouse in Glasgow is taking a distinctly chilly turn this week, as it opens the exhibition ‘Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica’, commissioned by the British Council. This internationally touring exhibition is intended to provide visitors an insight into how innovative contemporary architecture is facilitating new research in one of the world’s most harsh and hostile environments – Antarctica.
No Apologies: Farrell on location at MI6
On 27 June, the inaugural event in Blueprint’s new 20/20 series took place with Sir Terry Farrell invited to talk about one of his most influential contributions to the London skyline – the SIS or Secret Intelligence Service HQ, more commonly known as MI6 building.
Canal houses, Cookies & Consultation: in conversation with DUS Architects
‘A dome of umbrellas to trigger a spontaneous street party. A floating structure of ‘China Bags’ to encourage cultural exchange. A pavilion made of soap bubbles that only appears when people build it. DUS Architects is anything but an architecture firm in the traditional sense.’
Roots Manoeuvre: Design & Build workshop at WOMAD
As the festival season starts to get into full swing, one field-based music event in particular is targeting architects and would-be architects to get back to basics and go hands on.
The Mobile Orchard by Atmos
It’s a tree but not as we know it. It’s not alive, but it offers fruit. The Mobile Orchard is an installation by atmos that has been touring in July’s City of London Festival, here snapped from Devonshire Square and beside 30 St Mary Axe. Next month, the Mobile Orchard goes nationwide with Trees for Cities, a charity dedicated to planting urban trees – check out their itinerary when it emerges.
Design of the Year 2013: People’s Choice
2013 has seen the first opportunity for the public to vote for their Design of the Year at the Design Museum. From an impressive and wide ranging 99 entries to choose from, the exhibition threw power to the people to choose their favourite product of 2012/2013.
Joining the Dots at the Building Centre
FX & Blueprint Drawing Competition: The results
Drawings, before language, are primarily tools to communicate; they can be instructive, function as propaganda, or act as the testimony of laborious acts of love. As powerful as digital rendering software can be, there’s nothing as visceral as a hand-drawn sketch to convey an idea and some of its energy.
Making the Leadenhall Building: VIDEO & exclusive diary
The Leadenhall building, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is currently the tallest building in the increasingly vertiginous City of London (for the moment at least).