All articles by Martin Spring – Page 2
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NewsBirmingham's new library: an architectural shot in the arm
Mecanoo's design could bring excitement to the city centre
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NewsTalks fail over Viñoly gallery
Client and contractor on Colchester arts centre fail to agree price for completing building exterior
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NewsLondon Festival of Architecture attracts 250,000 people
Month long festival includes more than 600 events to become 'world's largest celebration of architecture'
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NewsLiverpool plans major design show on Le Corbusier
International exhibition on legendary Swiss architect will gain Lutyens twist for the UK
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NewsWinning combinations – Housing Design Awards winners from the past 60 years
To commemorate its Diamond Jubilee, the Housing Design Awards revisited award-winning developments of the past 60 years, looking for those that, in particular, excelled as sustainable buildings. Martin Spring brings you the six winners. Photographs by Tim Crocker
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NewsFrank Gehry, his pavilion, and the great British weather
The press preview for Gehry's summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery was a wash out in more ways than one
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NewsPerforming arts college in Dallas gets creative
Allied Works Architecture's design transforms Booker T Washington High School in Texas
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NewsPavilions pop up to mark
Temporary lido, cinema, stage and theatre erected as the London Festival of Architecture kicks off
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FeaturesKøbenhavn cool: Socially sustainable Danish architecture
Danish architecture’s love of light and openness encourages a high level of spatial and social interaction. To mark Architecture Week, Martin Spring looks at four developments that typify the city’s fresh approach to sustainability
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NewsImages: Pavilions pop up to mark start of architecture month
Temporary lido, cinema, stage and theatre erected as the London Festival of Architecture kicks off
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FeaturesDixon Jones' Kings Place: Water music
Dixon Jones’ canalside Kings Place in London combines public concert halls and art galleries with private office space. It is an extraordinary hybrid of a building, says Martin Spring
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FeaturesForeign Office Architects' John Lewis in Leicester: Great Drapes
Foreign Office Architects’ new John Lewis department store in Leicester has revolutionised retail design by wearing its curtains department on the outside. Martin Spring admires the stitching
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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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FeaturesMichael Tippett school: Wilful disobedience
Marks Barfield’s Michael Tippett school – London’s first Building Schools for the Future project – succeeds by ignoring many of the guidelines on both design and procurement. There’s probably a lesson in that, reckons Martin Spring
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FeaturesCamp Telefónica
The design of a huge telecoms business park near Madrid borrows heavily from a Roman military camp
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NewsImages: Foster's Beijing airport opens
The largest building in the world opens ahead of schedule and in time for the 2008 Olympics
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FeaturesThe house with four gardens
Each window of David Mikhail’s latest house overlooks a landscape with its own unique character
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City planning boss backs Prince Charles’ anti-tower harangue
Prince of Wales finds unlikely supporter in Peter Rees, the City’s long-serving head of planning Rees agrees that the location of tall buildings should be better controlled
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NewsImages: work starts on airport designed by Viñoly
Construction begins on Rafael Viñoly's Montevideo airport terminal in Uruguay
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NewsPrince Charles maybe mired in tradition but he has a point
Prince Charles' criticism of today's 'carbuncles' has more substance than his 1984 diatribe against modern architecture