All articles by Martin Spring – Page 7

  • Morley: Second exemplar hospital
    News

    Paddington hospital goes back to drawing board

    2006-01-06T00:00:00Z

    David Morley to draw up plans for £400m St Mary’s hospital, originally part of failed £1bn PFI health campus

  • The Welsh assembly building has been designed as an undulating timber-lined canopy stretching out to Cardiff Bay
    Features

    Open government

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    It feels like a million miles from the labyrinthine Holyrood. Lord Rogers’ Welsh assembly is all about transparency: in fact, it’s mostly a canopy open to Cardiff Bay

  • Martin Self & Chris Wise
    Features

    After the wobble

    2005-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Ahhh, Christmas … Time for old chums to get together, share memories, slap backs, redistribute blame and generally relive their glory days. For this lot, those days were spent designing, building, redesigning and amending the Millennium Bridge. So here’s your chance to eavesdrop on Arup, Foster and Partners, Sir Robert ...

  • The strangeness, if not the complexity, of Zaha Hadid’s science centre in Wolfsburg starts with the external view of the concrete shell
    Features

    Zaha’s strange logic

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    It’s the disorientating combination of counter-intuitive form and formal rigour that gives Zaha Hadid’s Wolfsburg Science Centre its architectural kick. Here’s the thinking behind it …

  • 1, The Spanish winery is capped by five barrel vaults that adopt the structurally efficient parabolic form pioneered by Antoni Gaudì
    Features

    Vintage Rogers

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership is the latest of the big-name architects to design a winery – this one for a vineyard in the northern Spanish village of Peñafiel.;

  • Features

    A fresh twist on a modern classic

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The library at the University of East Anglia represents the architecture of Sir Denys Lasdun at its unadulterated, domineering best. So how did Shepheard Epstein Hunter go about adding an extension to it 30 years on?

  • Features

    Carbon copy

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    After making a splash with BedZed, Bill Dunster is taking the sustainability mission to the next stage, tackling everyday housing as well as homes of Chinese bourgeoisie.

  • The arcades and the buildings bounding them all have solar heating and natural ventilation
    Features

    City of the sun

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    The spirit of Linz’s SolarCity, where 1317 new homes are sustained by solar energy, is encapsulated in its district centre.

  • News

    £15m Brighton hotel delayed

    2005-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Myhotel Brighton, the exclusive hotel next to Brighton’s prize-winning Jubilee Library, has been delayed by nine months after its designs were overhauled.

  • Noise prevents the public from using the spiral ramp to see democracy in action
    Features

    City Hall revist: Time has told

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone did not want Building to revisit his ‘Beehive’ City Hall three years after completion. Could it be that this 21st-century landmark has not achieved its low-energy targets?

  • Projects reunited Logo
    Features

    At first It was like the battle of the Somme

    2005-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Today Building launches Projects Reunited. Here you can catch up with former colleagues from legendary schemes you worked on together and find out how everybody is doing now. To get the ball rolling, we assembled 18 old chums who braved the muddy wastes of the Millennium Dome site …

  • Oak-clad parkland villa, Scottish Highlands
    Features

    Good wood

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Timber is an ideal construction material for housing: warm and inexpensive as well as low in carbon emissions. Building looks at four homes in the frame for this year’s Wood Awards

  • Features

    Big science

    2005-09-30T00:00:00Z

    The Wellcome Trust has expanded its campus for human genome research to include an awesome supercomputer and a suite of state-of-the-art laboratories.

  • Features

    This other Eden …

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Nature’s mathematical patterns have inspired the design of a new educational centre at The Eden Project. But Grimshaw has not just come up with a pretty flower-shaped space. Outside and inside, this is an elegant and robustly engineered design

  • Features

    The city marches east

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    After 19 years of protracted disputes, the City of London has finally arrived at the historic Spitalfields market, in the form of a sleek Foster and Partners office block. Building assesses the latest addition to this famously varied quarter of east London

  • Spitalfields has lost its gritty wholesale vegetable trade along with half the old market building
    Features

    19 years, 17 architects and a rich Roman lady

    2005-09-16T00:00:00Z

    The story of the Spitalfields development

  • The “Three Made Places” comprise a void cut of the snow, a standing monolith and an elongated horizontal box
    Features

    Frozen warnings

    2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Peter Clegg went with sculptor Antony Gormley to the Arctic Circle to create bleakly beautiful representations of the human body, a planet and a dead friend

  • Edinburgh Quay
    Features

    The performer

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    With a dazzling repertoire of styles, varying from classy to very blue, the Edinburgh Quay development is a real entertainer. In fact, if ever a building belonged on the Fringe, this is it.

  • Building readers wait to enter a show flat on one of Moho’s wide access decks
    News

    Urban Splash hosts first Building readers’ visit

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Readers from across the industry take a tour of Moho, the landmark Manchester modular housing scheme

  • In Tübingen’s French Quarter, a former military base is being regenerated by and for civilians, with a vibrant mix of old and new buildings, ample greenery and even a natural stream
    Features

    Our town

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    If you’d vaguely thought that Germans had the edge when it comes to urban design, prepare yourself for a shock: they’re in a completely different league. Building reports from two award-winning schemes