All articles by Martin Spring – Page 7
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FeaturesMusic, maestro
Santiago Calatrava’s £82m opera house in Valencia is a symphony in concrete and glass: the largest auditorium in Europe and the centrepiece of an arts and sciences complex designed by the local virtuoso
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FeaturesAfter the wobble
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 ...
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FeaturesOpen government
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
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FeaturesZaha’s strange logic
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 …
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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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A fresh twist on a modern classic
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?
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FeaturesCarbon copy
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.
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£15m Brighton hotel delayed
Myhotel Brighton, the exclusive hotel next to Brighton’s prize-winning Jubilee Library, has been delayed by nine months after its designs were overhauled.
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FeaturesCity of the sun
The spirit of Linz’s SolarCity, where 1317 new homes are sustained by solar energy, is encapsulated in its district centre.
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FeaturesAt first It was like the battle of the Somme
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 …
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FeaturesCity Hall revist: Time has told
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?
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FeaturesBig science
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.
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FeaturesThis other Eden …
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
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FeaturesThe city marches east
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
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FeaturesFrozen warnings
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
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NewsUrban Splash hosts first Building readers’ visit
Readers from across the industry take a tour of Moho, the landmark Manchester modular housing scheme
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FeaturesThe performer
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.
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