Architecture critic, Owen Hatherley, discusses his book, Artificial Islands - Adventures in the Dominions which explores the legacy of British-designed cities - some of the most purely artificial landscapes in the world - and the ways in which cities like Melbourne and Auckland are today reimagining their own history.

From Gwyneth Paltrow’s court-core to Logan Roy’s baseball cap, Kirstie Clements, author and columnist at The New Daily, discusses what has been identified as the latest fashion trend - stealth wealth.

With its ridges of soft, tufted cotton woven onto a cheaper base cloth, it combined softness and warmth with strength, making it comfortable to wear and popular with farmers and factory workers alike. It even had a kind of utilitarian chic when used by the Women's Land Army in the First World War, which saw women working in agriculture across Britain, filling the gap left by farm hands enlisted to fight abroad.

Blueprint's resident chef Annie Smithers returns with another edition of Kitchen Rudimental, this time revealing her obsession with knivesAll that time spent cooking has meant that Annie is well attuned to the melodies of the kitchen, including that of a resonant sharp knife.Kitchen Rudimental is series from Blueprint where chef Annie Smithers and Jonathan Green head into the kitchen to chat, cook and bake their way through the skills that will help make you a more confident home cook.Find more of Annie's past Kitchen Rudimentals here.

It's been dubbed the landlord special: beige-grey laminate, vast empty spaces, and colourless walls. Architecture correspondent for The Nation and author of McMansion Hell, Kate Wagner on the emergence of a disturbing new anti-aesthetic and the cultural and economic conditions in which aesthetic conformity is produced. 

Lauren Oyler, author and essayist, recounts her reluctant journey into Goop at sea, featuring dry skin brushing, holistic skin care, and a searching moral inventory with a psychological astrologer.

While some of today's cruise ships are as bulky and graceless as factories, many of the smaller vessels follow a similar blueprint to the ship that started it all, the SS Prinzessin Victoria Luise.

Laleh Khalili on the movement of cargo, capital and cruiseliners across the globe and the human economy and exploitative labour practices that facilitiates it.

Feast on a strawberry sorbet you can pair with a raspberry beret.In part two of Annie's mini-workshop on sugar syrup, Annie shows Jonathan how to whip together a sweet summertime treat with a splash of Campari in the latest edition of Kitchen Rudimental. 

In anticipation of the arrival of the American 'family' restaurant chain, Guy Rundle - Crikey columnist, chronicler of urban decline and its ever-diminishing pockets of resistance - reflects on the American ‘restaurant experience’ and the corrosive effect of franchise-chain capitalism on living culture.