All articles by Martin Spring – Page 10
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News
Primary school by the sea makes waves in Kent
Hythe architect Cheney Thorpe & Morrison contributes to imaginative school design with St Augustine’s
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FeaturesStop the traffic
Stuttgart has not so much lost a large hostile underpass as gained a stunning £48m gallery of modern art, in the form of Hascher Jehle’s perfect glass cube.
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FeaturesDon’t supersize me
The Peabody Trust’s latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster’s Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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FeaturesHow’s this for an executive box?
In a backlash against Brookside-style housing, Stock Woolstencroft has designed a model high-density apartment scheme with a splash of colour that also regenerates a historic area of north London suburbia.
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FeaturesIn the woods, today
Celebrated Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh has designed his own holiday home in a southern Swedish glade – and it’s more or less perfect.
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Features
Boatspotting
Edinburgh’s reinvention as a waterfront city is just one indication that the Scottish capital, with its booming economy and population, is set for a dramatic overhaul. We look ahead at the opportunities for consultants and contractors
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FeaturesObject lesson
It’s gold stars and smiley faces all round for Willmott Dixon and White Design, who have shot to the top of the government’s class with their super-sustainable Cheshire primary school. We deliver a glowing report.
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FeaturesDig that museum
Madrid architect Paredes Pedrosa has uncovered another treasure, a museum in the coastal Spanish town of Almeria
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Features
Brits on broadway
Next to the World Trade Centre site, Arup and Grimshaw have designed one of Manhattan's most dramatic projects. It may not alter the skyline, but the £500m subway interchange will transform the city's congested and confusing underground network.
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FeaturesJack Pringle
Reforming the PFI and tackling the brain-drain of newly qualified architects are the top priorities of the incoming RIBA president. We find out how Jack Pringle plans to navigate the choppy waters of the architecture business.
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NewsMoD refurbishment puts generals in open-plan offices
Grade I-listed headquarters in Whitehall reopens after radical interior makeover funded by PFI consortium
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FeaturesFriendly yet hostel
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard may just have achieved a near-impossible feat: to design ultra-high-density single-person housing next to a noisy railway, and actually make it liveable. We went to meet the residents at Friendship House.
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News
Green light for Thurrock experiment
Broad stretches of the Thames estuary that are now closed to the public could be opened up in a radical approach to urban regeneration that emphasises community involvement
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English Heritage to be put in charge of listing system
Heritage minister announces fresh role for agency after public consultation backs reform plan
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FeaturesShanghai zoom
Coming up on the inside it’s Shanghai, sliding into the Formula 1 fast lane with a £140m circuit, grandstands for 200,000 and oh, my word, what a spectacular finish from Tilke of Germany …
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Comment
Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.