The Shard
This Month, Blueprint focuses on the Shard. Architect Renzo Piano has transformed the London skyline with 306m, 87-storey tower that sets a precedent for high-rise in the capital. Herbert Wright talks to the architect and tells the story of this towering achievement that has already divided opinion across the city.
To accompany the issue, architectural photographer [...]
Once Upon A Wartime
Once Upon a Wartime brings five 20th-century children’s stories about the experience of war to life in a forthcoming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. The exhibition, designed by Pippa Nissen Studio, uses the books: War Horse; Carrie’s War; The Machine Gunners; The Silver Sword and Little Soldier to provide an insight into the reality [...]
A Portrait of the Balfron
The Balfron Project is a large-scale photographic event to be staged on the 18th November 2010, at the eponymous New Brutalist icon in East London, a mere kilometre north of the glistening glass towers of Canary Wharf. The Balfron is the latest in Simon Terrill’s Crowd Theory projects and for the first time Terrill is [...]
Mike Ballard and The All of Everything
The Arts Gallery on Bond Street will close in March 2010 and will be demolished to make way for Crossrail. The gallery, part of the University of the Arts London, has hosted shows by Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Chris Olifili amongst others. For the final show, which will opens on 10 December, on the [...]
