Maggie’s Centre Nottingham: CZWG and Paul Smith
CZWG and Paul Smith have completed their Maggie’s centre in Nottingham after an 11th month construction period. Maggie’s Nottingham serves the Mid Trent Cancer Network and is situated next to the Breast Institute at Nottingham City Hospital. The Mid Trent Cancer Network covers the populations of Nottingham, North Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire – approximately 1.3 million [...]
Fashion Lines
Drawing Fashion at the London Design Museum comprises a selection of 150 works by 16 fashion illustrators, created for various designers as advertising material, usually for publication in commercial magazines.
They have been drawn from the extensive collection of Joelle Chariau, founder and owner of a Munich gallery specialising in fashion drawings. The exhibition spans a [...]
Chalayan’s Hidden Track
Through two distinct, yet ultimately interrelated, installations by Hussein Chalayan at Kentish Town’s Spring Projects, B-Side seeks to highlight the invisible forces controlling our everyday lives by piecing together a controlled environment in which his own garments are placed. I say garment not simply because of Chalayan’s occupation as fashion designer but rather, because [...]
Best Student Projects in Britain
Welcome to the largest, best overview of architecture and design students work in the UK. This summer, Blueprint commissioned a panel of 16 architects, designers, curators and critics to visit the annual degree shows of 25 top design schools in Britain. More the 60 projects were nominated by the panel for their imaginative takes on [...]
Yohji Yamamoto Flagship Store, Paris
The new flagship store of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has opened in Paris. Although based in Tokyo, Yamamoto has an affinity with the French capital having debuted his Pret a Porter collection there in 1981. He now adds to list of stores in Tokyo, New York and Antwerp with a signature white box on Rue [...]
