All articles by Martin Spring – Page 24
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Green light
So far, so good the BRE's bright, sustainable building has been up and running for two years and its occupants love it.
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Hang the expense
Titanium cladding, previously more familiar on the straps of Rolex watches, seduced the top British architects who saw it on Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum. Now, it's about to make its UK debut in Glasgow.
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The cathedral
The Jubilee Line Extension has been plagued with difficulties. Praise be, then, for Foster and Partners' inspiring, light-filled station.
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First born
The first completed PFI healthcare facility is no blockbuster, but staff describe the £3.5m community hospital conversion as a five-star establishment .
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Motor homes
Ove Arup's ex-Jaguar man wants to use automated car production techniques to take factory built housing a step beyond current models.
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From factory to Hackney
Fully fitted-out modules, prefabricated in York and craned into place, have made their first appearance in a multistorey housing scheme.
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Blue heaven
Bluewater may be the last of the mammoth out-of-town shopping centres, but its classy interiors set new standards for smaller, town-centre malls across the UK.
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Art for art's sake
Architect John McAslan & Partners has given publisher Thames & Hudson a modern office interior that is as elegant and attractive as one of its art books.
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What a performance
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been hitting the headlines since it went on site in 1996: defective design, vandalism, strikes and claims have plagued it. Well, it was never going to be easy imagine trying to do £220m of work in a maze the size ...
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It's a weird and wonderful world
Yorkshire's Earth Centre, the first of 14 landmark millennium projects to open, pushes the green message with a mix of bizarre, fantastic and startling sights.
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Motown revival
There has always been more to Coventry than car plants. Now the city council and architect MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard are using its thousand-year history to stimulate the regeneration of the city centre.
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Birmingham's Mailbox: Britain's biggest building conversion
Even in a city famous for its concentration of huge commercial buildings, Birmingham's Royal Mail sorting office breaks several size records. For a start, it is the largest building in the city. With a footprint that covers two entire blocks, or 1.6 ha, it rises to five storeys and ...
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Restoration drama
Post-bomb repairs have been carried out on Manchester's Edwardian cotton exchange. Its elaborate foyer makes a grand front-of-house area for the theatre module within it.
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The new prescription
Boots wanted an office to help implement new work patterns and keep faith with its seminal 1960s building. DEGW obliged with a new take on the office of the future.
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Henry Boot to repair rust at Isle of Wight hospital
Contractor lands four-year, £15.9m recladding deal on trailblazing eight-year-old hospital.
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Too much of a good thing
The European parliament's new home in Strasbourg is undeniably monumental, but do 626 MEPs really need a second vast complex to do their job?