All articles by Martin Spring – Page 8
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FeaturesAuntie’s new look
Just another repeat on the BBC? Not quite: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s extension is designed to echo Broadcasting House but it has enough dramatic twists to become an icon in its own right.
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NewsLandmark Unilever building to get £90m makeover
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox to replace interior and restore stone exterior of listed office block in central London
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FeaturesTerminal 5’s big brother
You think Richard Rogers Partnership’s Heathrow Terminal 5 is about as big as big can be? Well prepare to be amazed: the practice’s Barajas Airport terminal in Madrid is twice the size – and even more elegant.
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FeaturesShow homes
This year’s Housing Design Awards, announced last night, have again shunned the executive box and instead celebrated some of the finest examples of high-density urban housebuilding.
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FeaturesMoho rising
With this pioneering 102-flat development in Manchester, Urban Splash and ShedKM have finally succeeded in making prefabricated housing the height of fashion. We found out how it was done.
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FeaturesNational treasure
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s headquarters for the National Trust is a model of crisp, functional architecture wedded to sustainable design. Martin Spring takes the train to Swindon to explain how it was done.
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Comment
How to serve schools
What a feast has been laid out for the building industry by Tony Blair’s government.
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NewsCABE lets public in to see design review in action
Architecture watchdog conducts public review of Levitt Bernstein’s Shrewsbury theatre and Farrell’s national park
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Features
Homage to Klee
Renzo Piano’s Paul Klee Centre in Berne, Switzerland, takes inspiration from the rolling scenery behind it – a response to nature of which the Swiss artist would heartily approve
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NewsArchitectures aristocracy vie for prime ministers award
Shortlist for 2005 Better Public Buildings prize includes Lords Foster and Rogers and Sirs Farrell and Hopkins
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FeaturesOpen-air surgery
Hopkins Architects’ design for a London hospital is a vivid demonstration of how design and healthcare can be combined to make a healing environment.
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NewsFourth Maggie’s Centre turns confusion into calm
Cancer counselling centre in Inverness uses landscape designs of Charles Jencks, husband of cancer victim Maggie
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NewsTate Modern architect to exhibit at … Tate Modern
Switzerland’s Herzog & de Meuron is first contemporary architect to be honoured with exhibition at the gallery
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NewsBetter offices are the key to business success
The British Council of Offices and CABE spell out the impact of good workplaces on a firm’s bottom line
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Features
2711 blocks, 6 million deaths
Berlin’s Jewish memorial uses abstract art on a monumental scale to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust
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FeaturesA game of two halves
In a top-of-the-table clash, architect Austin-Smith:Lord takes on old warhorse Denys Lasdun. But how will the young pretender respond to Lasdun’s brutalist Liverpool University sports centre?
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FeaturesLondon’s strength
The capital may be lagging – according to the bookies – in its bid to win the 2012 Games, but it has a secret weapon in the powerful designs for its brand new Olympic venues
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FeaturesJoined-up thinking
In an age of ingenious designs, bridges have become the latest must-have commission for architects. Fortunately, engineers seem happy to share the plaudits with their new colleagues. Here, we look at the stunning results of architect Hakes Associates and engineer Buro Happold’s joint venture
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Features
Koolhaas strikes again
For his latest trick, a £70m Portuguese concert hall, Rem Koolhaas has subverted the earnest business of concertgoing with another masterpiece of architectural surrealism