All articles by Martin Spring – Page 14
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FeaturesLoads of trouble
The developer wanted to take an office block over a road in central London and increase its floorspace by one-third. The catch was that the structure couldn't take any more weight. Here's how the engineer used a set of scales to solve the problem.
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NewsCalatrava's Athens stadium begins race against time
Spanish architect dispels fears of Olympics committee over strength of roofs – and faces 500-day deadline.
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Model answer
A triple-deck timber drum, meandering internal mall, state-of-the-art IT and an open-to-all crèche, cybercafe and library make Blyth Community College the government's template for future state schools. We took a long, close look.
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FeaturesA designer rampage
London's trendiest new celeb eaterie was dreamed up by 80 (yes, 80) mostly French designers as a heady mix of retro-baroque and ultra-kitsch
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The price of passion
The Scottish parliament is spectacular on many levels – not least in spiralling nine times over budget. But as these first pictures of the building show you get what you pay for.
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Into the fast stream: The further education market
With building expenditure in further education about to increase 60%, we highlight the challenges and opportunities in the sector
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FeaturesThe very model of a modern district general
The celebrated ACAD diagnostic and treatment centre in north-west London is to have an equally revolutionary and even more ambitious big brother. It will be a complete acute hospital that promises streamlined healthcare, uplifting architecture and close community links
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FeaturesThe children's crusade
How can you make a name for yourself if that name belongs to your famous parent? We talk to people who've wrestled with this problem – and found their own answers.
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FeaturesZen and the art of car design
Nissan wanted its new European design centre to promote harmony and clear thinking. With a minimalist white-on-white makeover, this 1960s former rail depot was pure brilliance
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Crystal island
Following the great tradition of creating glass structures for public events, the Austrian city of Graz is starting its year as European Capital of Culture with Vito Acconi's astonishing Mur Island
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Amec called in to cure PFI hospital
Amec is carrying out remedial works to the UK's first PFI hospital three years after the project was completed
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FeaturesGreat lengths
Ireland has just splashed out on an extraordinary national swimming complex. Extraordinary partly because no public money will be spent on running it – which meant the designers had to create a unique building that could pay its own way.
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FeaturesFun in the sun
Greenhill Jenner Architects took a deprived nursery school in Northamptonshire, added a sandpit and an Italianate campanile and – hey presto! – it's Calabria meets Palm Beach
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FeaturesRafael Viñoly
The Uruguayan's idea of resurrecting New York's twin towers as refined replicas of their former selves was an attempt to imagine how the city would look in 25 years.We asked him where the inspiration came from
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Lifschutz Davidson founder dies
Ian Davidson, the founding director of architect Lifschutz Davidson, died last week of a heart attack.
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FeaturesVariations on a lead tortoise
Those enigmatic lead-clad reptilian forms over there are Renzo Piano's designs for 21st-century Roman concert halls. We look at how the architect came by his extraordinary concept, and how it works in practice.
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South Bank to get £6m park
A world-class park to rival those in Paris and Barcelona is to be created on the site of the Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank
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FeaturesFlight and fight
SOM's competition-winning design for Nato's headquarters in Brussels not only encourages co-operation between the expanding alliance's member states, it also comes with wings …
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FeaturesIntegration theory
Eton College has run out of space. How can it be given a mathematics faculty in a modernist style that blends with buildings apparently put up in the 15th century?