All articles by Martin Spring – Page 9
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FeaturesCity slicker
Ricky Burdett, the London School of Economics’ new professor of architecture and urbanism, is the capital’s leading educator, adviser and ambassador of urban design. We met him to discuss his plans to improve cities across Europe and beyond …
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FeaturesPolitics and architecture
With the anticipation of a general election hanging in the air, we examine the importance of architecture to politicians and the people who vote for them – and takes stock of what Blair has done for the built environment in his eight-year tenure
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FeaturesNever mind the gherkin here’s the Geyser
Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar in Barcelona may be smaller than Foster and Partners’ Swiss Re, but it’s more vibrant, colourful – and basic. Martin Spring compares the two
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FeaturesCanterbury tale
Architect Rivington Street Studio has turned a run-of-the-mill repair and maintenance job into an elegant refurbishment for a faded campus of the Kent Institute of Art & Design.
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FeaturesLofty ideas, hushed tones
In its reinvention of the library as gateway to human knowledge, Bennetts Associates has created a graciously grand yet efficiently low-energy centrepiece to a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Brighton. We took a quiet look around
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FeaturesHome improvement
The three ugly sisters of Marsham Street are dead – and a much prettier successor has risen from their ashes. We assess the new Farrell-designed home of the Home Office
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Europe’s catwalk
Norman, Zaha, Daniel, Cesar and many more of world architecture’s signature brands are flocking to Italy to put their stamp on the design capital of Europe
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FeaturesNine into one
Is it a home? Is it an office? A shop, a theatre or maybe a bus station? Well, all of the above – and more besides. In fact, Ruddle Wilkinson Architects’ latest development in north London combines nine uses in one building. Martin Spring finds out how.
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Urban scrawl
Will Alsop’s exuberance may have been boxed in at Goldsmiths College, but his playfulness still extrudes itself onto the skyline as a silvery, sculptural squiggle. Martin Spring visits the provocative building on the busy New Cross Road.
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NewsFeilden: Architect who stretched the boundaries
Five years before his death last week while felling an ash tree, the architect Richard Feilden was honoured with an OBE. To receive the award he cycled down the Mall to Buckingham Palace in top hat and tails. The Queen was amused: she chatted to him about his unconventional transport
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FeaturesThe jet set
In Zürich, a crack Anglo-Swiss project team including Grimshaw and Arup have used imagination and pragmatism to bring glamour back to air travel. Martin Spring takes a tour around the airport that is a bit of a departure.
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Seven wonders of islamic design
From sandbags to soaring skyscrapers, this year’s Aga Khan Awards are a timely reminder of the diversity of architecture in the Muslim world
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Falling water 2004
Welcome to the most startling house in Britain … where the front door is a lily pond, the bedrooms are beneath a river and the rooms are separated by waterfalls. Ken Shuttleworth takes us for a paddle around his design and shows us his original concept sketches
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A Wellcome sight
Hopkins Architects’ latest project is a supersleek HQ for the Wellcome Trust, where researchers can take their breaks in an elegant atrium complete with a giant, cascading glass sculpture
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The future is here
Los Angeles: Year 2004. Fifteen years earlier than Ridley Scott suggested, Blade Runner architecture has landed on the West Coast in the shape of this transportation HQ.
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FeaturesThe re-education of Richard Feilden
Or what happened when the man whose ‘blood boiled’ at the mere sight of a PFI school decided to have a go at one himself. We write the end-of-project report, Richard Feilden‘s critical self-assessments provide the captions for the photographs
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The dream comes true
The RIBA has joined forces with the V&A to produced the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery and a library of its prize drawings collection
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FeaturesMarks Barfield cafe: One small, skinny mollusc please
Marks Barfield’s latest scheme is an invertebrate cafe that has attached itself to Birmingham’s Bullring centre – where it is providing weary shoppers with a shell-like retreat