All articles by Martin Spring – Page 12
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FeaturesImperial history
Photographer Julian Anderson spent three years documenting the building of Foster and Partners' sleek Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London. Here's a selection of his pictures.
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FeaturesAnd now from the BBC …
The Beeb asked Allies & Morrison to create a vast media village next door to another enormous office block at its bleak White City site – without creating the last word in urban alienation. We finds out what happened next, Adam Wilson collects the photographic evidence
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FeaturesAs good as it's got
Once again, Foster and Partners has shown the wonders modern CAD can perform – this time by combining the golden spiral of the Nautilus with wonderfully imaginative engineering. So, who wants to be a millionaire?
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FeaturesWhat the planners think
RTPI president Mike Hayes describes the view from his side of the fence
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FeaturesSexy education
Last year, 11 signature architects were given some homework: each had to design an ideal school to show education planners what they're supposed to look like. Here's what they handed in
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FeaturesA roman triumph
The opening scene is a vast rundown Edwardian variety hall unsympathetically converted into a drab cinema. Enter lions, angels, QSs, engineers, architects, chariots, emperors and slaves bearing alabaster friezes, golden statues and a vast rotating ball. Cue music …
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FeaturesHere’s the pitch
Sport England’s standardised design is starting a Mexican wave of achievable, accessible halls that don’t look like tin boxes. We report from the touchline at Dagenham.
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FeaturesMaker's mark
London's Holloway Road was not exactly crying out for an edgy, in-yer-face building, but Daniel Libeskind's latest design does wonders for it anyway. Martin Spring assesses the design, Thomas Lane reports on the building techniques.
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FeaturesFair and square
Stride Treglown's rectilinear community building in Bristol enriches the lives of local residents – not least because of its clean lines and accessible courtyard garden
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NewsFancy a ziggurat?
Here are some present ideas for the architecture buffs in your life: everything from bendy, trendy biomorphics to the monuments of ancient Mesopotamia.
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FeaturesThe x factor
Squeezing a million extra visitors into New York would be an Olympian feat, but the team bidding against London to host the 2012 games has developed a race advantage. They call it the Olympic X
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FeaturesBeyond the automobile
Ford has helped turn its mammoth Dagenham car plant into a pioneering technical education centre – and its first customers will be the former factory's workers. Oh, and it looks fantastic, too. Who said history was bunk?
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NewsRafael Moneo wins over the RIBA with timeless approach
Spanish architect – a follower of form and function, not fashion – is awarded Royal Gold Medal at the age of 67.
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FeaturesKunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing
Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...
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NewsArchitect repels TV attack
Architect RTKL has rejected criticism made in a television programme this week of its "muddled" design of Worcester hospital
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FeaturesHow's that possible?
Welcome to Tenerife concert hall – the first ever performing arts building by Santiago Calatrava Esquire, architect, engineer and structural magician …
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NewsHolding the curve: McLaren unveils its sleek Foster HQ
Racing car manufacturer's 60,000 m2 centre boasts cutting-edge technology and bends to rival Silverstone.
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FeaturesTalking 'bout evolution
The building world has spawned a new breed of executive who speaks of sustainability, accountability and ethical finance. But, according to a KPMG survey, the rest of the construction species still has some growing up to do.
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FeaturesTele vision
Welcome to Telenor: an ultra-high-spec office building housing 7000 staff and all the latest wireless technology but nestling on the quiet banks of a Norwegian fjord. We take a look at pastoral networking