All articles by Martin Spring – Page 4
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FeaturesThe drive of your life
Breaking the stereotype of multistorey car parks as concrete monstrosities, Wilkinson Eyre’s latest project is as visually exciting as it is functionally efficient.
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FeaturesDoing justice to the law
Michael Wilford’s law academy in the Hague is a judicious mix of the traditional and the avant-garde
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FeaturesDone to a turn
Architect Clague’s curvaceous extension to the Strode Park Foundation brings something that most housing for disabled people has never even heard of – glamour.
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NewsLiverpool docks to get £130m New World scheme
John Lyall Archtiects wins permission for £130m mixed-use scheme in 2008 Capital of Culture
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Features‘You could run this building as a traditional school – but it would be a waste’
Building Design Partnership’s Marlowe Academy in Ramsgate is like no other school – it has a campus feel, there are no corridors and the students don’t even bunk off.
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NewsNorwich Union’s Edwardian HQ joins the 21st century
Land Securities and LSI Architects complete £90m makeover of insurance giant’s Norfolk home
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NewsRogers reveals new practice name
Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) has unveiled further details of its succession plans just days after its former managing director filed a civil court claim in a row over the ownership of the firm’s office in west London.
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FeaturesDream house Down Under
When Paul and Jaki Halliday decided to leave London’s traffic-clogged rat’s maze for the hills of New South Wales, they celebrated by commissioning their ideal home. Martin Spring explains how their compatriot, Alan Higgs, designed it
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FeaturesSpiritual awakening
Mario Botta’s Swiss Mountain Oasis lifts body, mind and architecture to new levels
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FeaturesThe abdication
Here is Richard Rogers, flanked by his heirs apparent: Ivan Harbour, on the right, and Graham Stirk. But when will the great man go? What will his successors do when he does? And in the meantime, can they stop Marco Goldschmied’s legal actions taking away their offices? Martin Spring investigates ...
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FeaturesA living legacy
Frank Gehry’s Maggie’s centre has been open for three years. Martin Spring paid a visit to find out how well it has served the cancer patients that use it. And on page 60, he reviews the latest centre, which also happens to be Zaha Hadid’s first completed project in the ...
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FeaturesAggressive treatment
Zaha Hadid’s Maggie centre is a steel-and-glass composition set in grassy parkland. Martin Spring admires the dynamism, but wonders if it’s quite what the brief called for …
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Libeskind brings Eden to North
Rainforest attraction is expected to be located in Blackpool or Liverpool and will feature hotel and giant greenhouse
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NewsLibeskind brings Eden to North
World Trade Centre architect Daniel Libeskind is working on a £75m Eden Project-style scheme in north-west England, it has emerged.
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FeaturesUnder their wings
Ryder HKS’s Darlington Education Village brings together the least able children, including those with severe behavioural difficulties, and the most academic – an architectural and curatorial challenge that has been met with verve. Not bad for a PFI project
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FeaturesPartridge’s parallel universe
Physics buff David Partridge on why Argent is now two places at the same time
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FeaturesCalatrava swoops on Belgium
The architect–engineer is topping a Liège train station with yet another astonishing roof
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FeaturesAn oasis by the Elephant
Just around the corner from the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, a colourful housing scheme by de Rijke Marsh Morgan has replaced the drab greys of Southwark’s Heygate estate. Martin Spring explains how the project is just the beginning of a long-overdue £1.5bn regeneration plan
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FeaturesThats The Way
Martin Spring reports from The Way, Lovell’s vast, highly sustainable and distinctly eye-catching panellised housing project for New East Manchester