All articles by Martin Spring – Page 4

  • Features

    Dazzling achievement

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Martin Spring heads to the Wirral to see how Wallasey’s pioneering solar school is holding up, 46 years after it was built. Then, on page 50, find out how the 21st century does solar in the first of a series on renewable technologies

  • Libeskind’s jagged, teetering forms in Toronto’s museum extension were inspired by gems housed its collection
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    Royal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …

  • Hi-tech features will include driverless taxis on overhead monorails and photovoltaic cells in the awnings
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    Masdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how

  • Manchester Civil Justice Court
    News

    UK's biggest court opens doors to Lord Chancellor - images

    2007-05-31T13:13:00Z

    Lord Falconer praises design of the £113m Manchester Civil Justice Centre by architect Denton Corker Marshall

  • Looking up at the dazzling, restored semicircular concert hall
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    Saving St George

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.

  • Features

    Wonders & blunders

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …

  • Features

    Lost in space

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Surface Architects’ conversion of Birkbeck College’s film and media research centre is a complex sculpture that breaks down distinctions between walls, floors and ceilings, opening it up to all manner of interpretations. Martin Spring makes one or two

  • The reception lobby spreads out between a wavy curtain wall and internal murals
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    Find me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building

  • Some 1,850 building industry professionals descend into the Great Hall of London’s Grosvenor House hotel for the annual Building Awards
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    A mind blowing evening ...

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Derren Brown added his mystifying presence to last week’s construction industry Oscars

  • Emirates Stadium, north London
    Features

    They are the champions

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This year, for the first time, the Building Awards included the Building Project of the Year, for the best completed scheme. Martin Spring reviews the five runners-up and the winner, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium

  • Features

    Recordamos

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack

  • Von Bradsky (shown speaking) and Battersby (far left)
    News

    The new international

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Making the news Andy von Bradsky is taking PRP Architects into China (and Sainsbury’s)

  • A futuristic vision proposed by Barker and Coutts Architects
    Features

    Flood management: The water’s lovely

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    The UK faces a future of devastating floods, like the one that hit Boscastle three years ago. But instead of fighting them, some people are suggesting we learn to live with them.

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
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    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism

  • The theatrical new grandstands sit in the gaze of Aintree's famous statue of the Grand National’s only triple winner, Red Rum
    Features

    A different beast

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Aintree’s makeover doesn’t have much in common with the troubled Ascot redevelopment – or any other stadium for that matter. Martin Spring checks out the view from BDP’s flamboyant grandstands

  • The new extension blends a modern window wall with a traditional hipped roof
    News

    After a century, Hampton Court gets an extension

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £2.4m visitor centre is opened by the Prince of Wales

  • The first frame was lifted on to the site on Sunday evening
    Features

    Religious conversion

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.

  • The prototype Digital House was erected at the Architecture Foundation’s gallery in four days. It now awaits cladding
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    The digi-box

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Want a three-storey extension to a grade II-listed building in less than a day? Or a house that’s been digitally manufactured to be as easy to assemble as an Airfix model? Martin Spring visits two projects that are taking off-site manufacture to the next level

  • Prague Library exterior
    News

    Image: Prague's National Library

    2007-03-06T10:58:00Z

    Future Systems and Kaplicky win £60m scheme

  • Romford's new PFI hospital is arranged in four drums above a deep-plan podium, with an attached administrative drum
    Features

    In clover

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Romford can’t believe its luck. The Essex town’s new hospital is a 939-bed giant with a state-of-the-art cancer centre and a compact four-leaf clover layout that helps staff to save lives.