Architects & design Focus – Page 10
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FeaturesOperation Hip: Igloo's Bermondsey Square
Bermondsey Square, the centrepiece of a £60m regeneration project in south-east London, is intended to seduce the young and trendy with its take on inner-city living
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FeaturesRobert Stern: designing Dubya's library
Architect and academic Robert Stern is to design a library for the outgoing president of the United States. The joke going around, of course, is that it must be a fairly small building. Dan Stewart found out
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FeaturesChaos theory: Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion
Gehry’s Serpentine pavilion may look like timber and glass thrown together, but precise planning went into getting it just right, says Martin Spring
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FeaturesEight wonders
In the 14th year of the Building Awards and the second year of the special Building Project of the Year Award, the judges were heartened by the strength and range of the more than 20 entries. So they stretched the normal limit of six shortlisted projects to eight. Martin Spring ...
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FeaturesZaha's challenge
The abandonment of Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ in London was a disappointment for design connoisseurs, but what does it tell us about the ambition of the British construction industry?
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FeaturesGlenn Howells: Almost famous
Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Noddy Holder … the Midlands has produced its fair share of rock stars. Sadly, frustrated musician Glenn Howells wasn’t one of them. But now, with a Stirling prize nomination to his name, the Birmingham architect is about to get his turn in the limelight.
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FeaturesTop drawer
Talk about a cabinet reshuffle – Denton Corker Marshall’s flamboyant design for Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building’s clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...
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FeaturesInside the project team
Now you’re all clued up on Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre, it’s time to meet the Aussies who designed it. Martin Spring got inside their mutual headspace. Portraits by Tim Foster
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FeaturesBouygues’ battle for Britain
As the 10th anniversary of the French company’s entry into the UK approaches, its managing director tells Mark Leftly about his plans to expand all over the country
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FeaturesNorthern soul
Erick van Egeraat’s glass-fronted Institute of Modern Art has rejuvenated Middlesbrough’s barren public quarter
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FeaturesMuseum of Scotland: A revisit to the museum
Nine years after it was built, Martin Spring went back to Benson & Forsyth’s Museum of Scotland. He found a striking, intriguing building that is struggling to cope with the Edinburgh weather
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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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FeaturesA view from the gods
Looking out over this nondescript part of Leicester, and almost entirely suspended from this roof, will be the UK’s most exciting new theatre – and the first building in this country to be designed by US architect Rafael Viñoly.
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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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FeaturesLife after la corrida
Barcelona’s disused Las Arenas bullring is being transformed from a crumbling wreck into Richard Rogers’ vision for a leisure and entertainment venue, topped out with a UFO-style roof.
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FeaturesJean de florette
Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.
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FeaturesVintage Rogers
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.;
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FeaturesGet Luder: Owen Luder’s fight to save Gateshead carpark
From the archive: Back in 2005 Building joined the architect as he tried to save his brutallist car park, made famous by the film Get Carter, from demolition
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FeaturesKunsthaus Graz: You sexy thing
Graz is celebrating its status as Europe’s capital of culture with a dazzling architectural display – and a British contribution is stealing the show. We visited Kunsthaus Graz, a shocking, sensuous, biomorphic art gallery designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier – and still found time to sample the city’s ...