Blueprints for making the EU more democratic have often focused on giving even more powers to MEPs – on the naïve assumption that the parliament would always automatically be pro-European.
Sir David Bell, the former Department for Education permanent secretary, recently pointed out that our fractured political system means the party manifestos are less important than in the past and will be "starting points for negotiation" rather than blueprints for government.
Even the complexity of his blueprints and the experimenting that went into them, like his famous solution to the problem of the shells construction (as segments of a single sphere, thus enabling the components to be mass-produced) and a similar solution to the acoustic ceilings based on the cylinder; and one for the soaring glass walls on the structure of a bird's wing.
It was never about music (it's no accident that Jay-Z's albums are numbered as volumes and "blueprints", like abstract paintings – one, two, three, four).
The property market has rocketed recently, with much interest from foreign investors working off blueprints and promises, rather than finished flats.
More recently but less perilously, CargoLifter, a German firm that planned to develop a dedicated heavy-lifting airship, went bust in 2002 with only a huge empty hangar and a few blueprints to show for it.Technology Quarterly Splitting the digital difference Behold, the bus of the future Pipe in the sky?
They eventually escaped by running into the shopping centre and climbing down a fire escape.Despite many individual acts of heroism, the response from Kenya's security forces was slow and insufficient in the face of ten or more attackers who had studied blueprints, stored caches of weapons in advance and come prepared for a fight.
They govern on autopilot, following the blueprints he left behind.
Nonetheless, he suggests mischievously that the Americans should "show a bit of self-discipline and not misunderstand their geographic proximity" (the Treasury is a mere four blocks from the IMF .Nor is Mr Köhler a fan of the detailed reform blueprints that emanate from the G7 group of finance ministers.
Dachangjiang provides its suppliers with rough sketches rather than detailed blueprints and encourages them to innovate.A second area where the Chinese excel is in "bandit" or "guerrilla" innovation, known as shanzhai.
An architect vetting last-minute changes can call up blueprints into the Zanvas window and visibly underscore various components, while the client scrutinises the revisions from a personal computer located elsewhere on the Internet.
