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Built by the Nazis and redeemed by the Allies' 1948 airlift, Tempelhof Airport has totemic significance in Berlin. Tim Abrahams reports on the hole its closure has left in the city
Blueprint , 2009
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PRODUCE - The office furniture market has not had the easiest time, but Tim Abrahams visits Orgatec and find designers looking to a brighter future
Blueprint , 2007
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PRODUCE - Tim Abrahams visits the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Gian Luca Amadei visits IMM Cologne. From the first, we look at two dynamic designs which show a new canniness in Nordic design. Young designers making products unique through adaptation. In Cologne, we found an event that is developing in exciting directions, with great work on show and an architectural emphasis to debate
Blueprint , 2007
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URBAN LEGENDS - Tim Abrahams sees how Narratives Of The Unseen, a project bringing together architecture students and teachers in Belgrade and Glasgow, has created a new, virtual city in a Flash
Blueprint , 2003
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DESIGN MUSEUM HOLON - The first design museum in Israel, designed by Ron Arad, is reaching completion. Situated near the vibrant city of Tel Aviv, where Arad grew up, it is intended to have a Bilbao effect on Holon, but actually out-performs Gehry's art museum. Tim Abrahams reports on the dramatic building that departs from the region's modernist heritage with an expressive form that's fit for an inhospitable terrain
Blueprint , 2009
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SIGHT AND SOUND - As music videos become easier and cheaper to produce and DVD releases are becoming the norm, Tim Abrahams says, record producers need to embrace the fact that we'll be buying all our albums with visuals in future
Blueprint , 2003
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AFTER REDUNDANCY - Architecture has been one of the worst affected industries in the recession. After being made redundant James Whitaker took the opportunity to go full-time with his hobby of photography. Whitaker became interested in the stories behind newly redundant architects and began a series of portraits: We present a selection of his photographs of architects who are taking on new careers and drawing on their unique skills
Blueprint , 2010
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LIVERPOOL: ARRESTING DECLINE - The impact of the Capital of Culture status is nothing compared to the Liverpool One development. Tim Abrahams wonders whether the city can spend its way out of decline
Blueprint , 2008
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PRODUCE - Herman Miller's new chair is called Embody. It represents the outcome of two years of research followed by four years of design. Tim Abrahams visits the area around the Great Lakes to investigate the philosophy which has produced such a leap in office chair design. The chair will be launched at Orgatec in Cologne, this October, as will the Bouroullec's flexible workstation, Playns. Gian Luca Amadei visits the Parisian design duo
Blueprint , 2008
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EAST ARCHITECTS - Taking its name from the part of London where many of its projects are sited, East revels in the nitty-gritty of planning and the meticulous mapping of terrain. Focusing on how things fit together, the practice has applied this attention to detail to ambitious projects like the East London Green Grid, as well as its smaller, public projects like the new Bermondsey Square
Blueprint , 2009
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IGNALINA POWER STATION - Tim Abrahams visits the Soviet-built Ignalina nuclear power station. Having influenced the growth and character of the surrounding town, its imminent closure throws into question current attitudes toward energy
Blueprint , 2008
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VENICE BIENNALE - Not enough architecture, say the critics. Tim Abrahams takes a trip to the architectural museum of Venice and finds plenty to get excited about amid the pavilions of the Giardini
Blueprint , 2006
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INTERVIEW: ANTHONY WONKE - Tim Abrahams meets the film-maker Anthony Wonke, whose documentaries The Tower and the (GBP)800 Million Station use architecture as a microcosm of society
Blueprint , 2008
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BREAKING NEW GROUND - Agricultural buildings are the building type that architects forgot. They are the last bastion of traditional functionalism -- Huge prefabs to ad-hoc, self-built structures. But the seeds of change are being sown
Blueprint , 2004
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TROUBLED WATERS - An exciting Liverpool Biennale is just round the corner yet the preparations for the City of Culture are going awry. Tim Abrahams investigates the squabbles, the politicking and the artistic differences that are determining the direction of Merseyside's regeneration
Blueprint , 2006
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COIN STREET - Tim Abrahams looks at sometime social warriors, the Coin Street Community Builders and the new neighbourhood centre it has produced with Stirling nominees Haworth Tomkins
Blueprint , 2007
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EXYZT IN LATVIA - Mushrooms, forests and strange lights in the night: Enter the magical world of Exyzt. Husband and wife team Carl Biorsmark and Kristine Briede have created a cultural hub for a socially and ethnically divided region in Latvia. Bringing a contemporary element to the remnants of Soviet rule, Exyzt has reinvented a military barracks to spectacular effect. Tim Abrahams talks to the multiskiled Parisian collective
Blueprint , 2007
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SALONI MILAN - Milan's evolving relationship with design has made it one of the most connected cities in Europe. Tim Abrahams and Gian Luca Amadei visit during the Saloni -- A time of openness and exchange between the design industry and the city -- And pick out the highlights
Blueprint , 2007
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THE PEEPS: ANCOATS - Tim Abrahams travels to what was once England's busiest industrial area to find out how Dan Dubowitz is offering a new way to view Manchester's legacy
Blueprint , 2007
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ORBITAL WORKSTATION - Tim Abrahams finds out why it took Charles Keen and the Azumis five years to produce this flexible and ergonomic workstation for the classroom
Blueprint , 2007
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