All articles by Martin Spring
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NewsHAPPI thoughts: a radical rethink of homes for older people
A panel of housing experts that goes by the name of HAPPI has come up with a radical rethink of this country’s approach to providing homes for older people. Martin Spring takes a look at its findings
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NewsDesign review panels on the Cabe model reach 81
Design watchdog updates guidelines to regional panels in effort to review more planning applications across the country
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FeaturesCheap and tasty: 2009 Housing Design Awards winners
This year’s Housing Design Awards are a tribute to affordable family homes that radiate local character, such as this modern take on the traditional Devon terrace
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FeaturesWill Alsop's Peckham library revisited
Source: Astrid Kogler The front elevation, complete with giraffe-leg columns
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NewsNetwork Housing Group develops 171 hospital staff apartments
Flats will accommodate keyworkers at Central Middlesex hospital
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NewsImages: Shanghai Tower heads into the record books
Construction starts on China's tallest building, the Gensler-designed 128-storey Shanghai Tower
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NewsBrian Johnson to head Aedas in Europe and UK
Architect promotes design director who founded its Manchester office 22 years ago
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News2012 Handball Arena goes to planning
The 7,000-seat arena is designed by Make in association with Arup and PTW, the Australian architect that worked on the Beijing Aquatics Centre
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NewsLondoners splurge as £1.7bn Westfield mall opens
Retail therapy overrules shoppers' credit crunch worries at opening of giant west London mall
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NewsDouble-decker bus-stop hits the Oxo tower
Architects' transformational designs in two new initiatives include bunk-bed bus stops and a snowdrop formation
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NewsDavid Parkes, architect of cost-effective housing, dies
Architect designed UK's first sheltered housing scheme
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NewsArgent selected for £1bn Birmingham scheme
Redevelopment of Paradise Circus includes the existing City Library
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NewsLibeskind's Swiss shopping and leisure centre opens its doors
Star architect branches out into retail and leisure with £250 centre straddling motorway near Bern
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NewsKing's Place prepares to open its doors
Five-day cultural extravaganza to celebrate Parabola Land's mix of concert halls, galleries, food outlets and office space in King's Cross
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FeaturesWhere we’re at … the 2012 London Olympics
This is the space – an area as vast as Hyde Park – that has been cleared to make way for the Olympic park.
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NewsNatural History Museum unveils the Darwin Centre
Images released of windowless cocoon by Danish architects that will exhibit 20 million specimens and house its 200 researchers
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NewsCabe highlights concern over design for 2012 stadium
Cabe and Design for London praise overall design but unconvinced about temporary pods and public space around the stadium
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FeaturesA fine winery: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Spanish project
In between its airport terminals and office towers, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners manages to find time for the odd small but perfectly formed project. Martin Spring visits a wine factory in northern Spain
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Talks fail over Vinoly gallery
Client and contractor on Colchester arts centre fail to agree price for completing building exterior
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NewsZaha Hadid defends aquatics centre
Architect behind the 2012 pool blames spiralling budget on the rising cost of materials