All articles by Martin Spring – Page 17
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FeaturesA test of Sheffield's mettle
Since the collapse of Sheffield's famous steel industry, regeneration initiatives have come and gone with little success. So, what are the chances that the latest, Sheffield One, will rub the rust off the city's image?
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FeaturesBathed in light
British architect Pringle Brandon Botschi's Austrian spa hotel encourages indulgence in its sun-drenched terraces, elegant, light-filled rooms and generous bathing areas. Pass the loofah …
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FeaturesRaising Hull
Opening to the public this weekend, Sir Terry Farrell's Hull aquarium is designed to put the lost city of the North back on the map. But, asks Martin Spring, is The Deep up to the task?
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FeaturesEscape from the pod people
Two young architects discovered that prefab is being taken over by developers who think it means putting toilet pods everywhere – and vowed to fight back … Martin Spring found out how they're doing
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FeaturesDrop-in centre
HLM Architects' office building inserted into London's Arundel Great Court has been ingeniously designed to serve as the hub of the complex – without being glaringly obvious
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FeaturesThe new traditionalists
Classical architecture is making a bid for recognition. Martin Spring looks at a movement attempting to shake off its retarded image, and overleaf Mark Leftly profiles David Lunts, the man who is about to bring Prince Charles' agenda into the heart of the government
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FeaturesPiano's forte
With an international track record in performing and visual arts buildings, Italy's Renzo Piano has now converted a sugar factory in Parma, near Florence, into a simple, elegant, no-frills concert hall.
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FeaturesThe talented Mr Ripply
An open air museum in Sussex has charted timber-frame from Tudors and traditional cottages to arrive at a new architectural idiom for the countryside
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FeaturesEden better
Aggregates group RMC has the finest, most magical head office of any company in the construction industry. In fact, hanging gardens make it look more like uninterrupted parkland than a headquarters. So why did its owner want to change it? Martin Spring found out.
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FeaturesNorthern light
Oldham's outlandish art gallery will form the centrepiece of a new cultural quarter, as part of the troubled city's ambitious regeneration plans. Martin Spring took a peek at Pringle Richards Sharrat's answer to Peckham Library.
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FeaturesWelcome to the videodrome
A startlingly different shopping experience is being offered to New Yorkers by cult fashion retailer Prada and architect Rem Koolhaas – but what were all the IT consultants for? Martin Spring tells all
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FeaturesSpanish corker
The copious curves and sinuous lines of Santiago Calatrava's new winery in La Rioja, Spain, might leave visitors as woozy as the tipples prepared within – but it is a triumph of the architect's clear vision.
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Rogers attacks 'dishonest' facades planning guidance
Architect launches campaign to revise planning rules by slamming the retention of old facades on new buildings.
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FeaturesVa va vroom!
Faced with landscape in which the only distinguishing feature are the mountains of red tape, Dutch architects have fought back with a joyous, renegade modernism.
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Green group submits rival masterplan for Bath
Council for Protection of Rural England asks county council to rethink £900m 30 ha riverside scheme.
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A literary classic
The classical style comes back big and bold at Oxford University's Sackler Library, designed by Robert Adam Architects. Impressive on the outside, the revived style reveals its limitations inside
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Art surgery
Famed for its awesome atrium space and therapeutic art collection, the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital is now eight years old. Martin Spring asks what lessons can the Prince of Wales, as NHS design tsar, learn from this pioneering hospital?