Architonic, which holds a repository of about 400,000 different products from lighting to chairs, plans to leverage the news site’s reach and expertise without affecting its editorial content or coverage. Contract, which also hosts an online product database, will continue doling out digital content and newsletters through September 1 but will close down its events offerings and website shortly after.Įlsewhere, at the beginning of May, Archdaily, the largest architecture news website, was acquired by products database company (sensing a trend here?) Architonic for approximately $12.5 million. The venerable 60-year-old magazine, which focuses mainly on architecture and commercial interiors with the aim of helping industry insiders specify their projects and stay up-to-date on related business news, has announced that the July 2020 issue will be its last.
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The elimination of its physical edition is a major loss for the architecture world, and somewhat unexpected in 2013, while many media companies were grappling with how to cater to a digital audience, Blueprint ramped up production of its print magazine from once to twice a month.Īcross the pond in New York, Contract magazine has met a similar fate. The ubiquitous spread of cheap offset lithography printing in the ’80s (and decline of union power, Murray told Dezeen) allowed Blueprint to flourish, as did its backing by big names in the English architecture world including “Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Terence Conran and Rodney Fitch,” according to Blueprint. As the journalistic landscape shifts, Blueprint, which had published bi-monthly since 1983, will reportedly shift to providing digital resources for architects and designers, according to Dezeen.įounded by Peter Murray and Deyan Sudjic as a scrappy journal covering art, architecture, and design from a small office in Marylebone, London. The pavilion has had over three million visitors so far since opening in May 2015, and this major accolade brings its award tally to seven, including the International Prize for Best Pavilion Architecture by the Italian Association of Architects and other Italian national construction and landscape organisations.īDP’s architects, landscape and lighting consultants designed the pavilion as part of a team led by Nottingham-based artist Wolfgang Buttress and including contractor Stage One and structural engineer Tristan Simmonds.It’s the end of several eras, as venerable architecture and design magazine Blueprintwill make issue 369 its last physical edition. Johnny Tucker, editor of Blueprint magazine, commented about the awards: “In just the second year of the awards we found our international reputation has gone before us and the quantity and quality of the projects we received from all over the globe was nothing short of stunning.” The awards honour excellence in the architecture and design industry by selecting winners across 12 categories from projects all over the world. Blueprint magazine, the authority on architecture, design and art, has revealed the winners of the 2015 Blueprint Awards at a ceremony in London on 22 October.īDP and Wolfgang Buttress won the award for Best Public Building with the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo from a shortlist of 14.
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