All articles by Martin Spring – Page 3
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NewsPrince Charles attacks rash of new 'carbuncles'
The Prince of Wales blasts new generation of skyscrapers warning they will disfigure London
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News
New competition held for New Street Station
RIBA announces selection process for 'concept designer' after John McAlsan's designs were dropped last year
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NewsRIBA must abandon tribe mentality says Prasad
Incoming RIBA president says Institute must reach out to other professions
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NewsCan London's big top become the main attraction?
HOK Sport's temporary stadium will be taken down once the Olympic circus leaves town but will its design capture the public imagination
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NewsStirling prize winner calls for closer links with the public
Chipperfield criticises ‘dysfunctional relationship’ between architecture and society in Britain
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2007: The age of expansion
With all the talk of credit crunches and stalled projects, it’s possible to forget what a staggeringly successful time this is for consultants – as our annual league of the top 250 makes clear.
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FeaturesHe’s cracked it
Paul Andreu’s Beijing theatre has been dubbed the Egg. But how do you get into it? And what do you see when you do?
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FeaturesFolkestone, mon amour
Billionaire businessman Roger de Haan is reversing his Kent home town’s gentle decline into dereliction. Martin Spring found what he’s giving back – and if you turn up at his arts Triennale next summer, you can too …
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NewsKey design guide goes on web
English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation launch new Urban Design Compendium in print and online
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FeaturesThe writing’s on the wall
Two neighbouring sixties council estates in north London. One is the best kept estate in the district. The other is in total disrepair, blighted by crime and, much to residents’ relief, being torn down. To find out what can be learned for the latest wave of high-density inner-city housing developments, ...
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FeaturesA giant leap for Foster
Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before …
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FeaturesPump up the volume
Martin Spring takes a look at the latest advances in volumetric construction, from novel uses for shipping containers to designs for modules that are – whisper it – less boxy. But will any of this increase its popularity among housebuilders?
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FeaturesSunand Prasad
Politician and academic – not to mention architect – the new RIBA president certainly has the CV to tackle the top post in British architecture. But does he have the policies?
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FeaturesDivine mystery
What’s the secret of this baffling monolith of raw concrete that stands in a field near Cologne?
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FeaturesThe building that wasn’t there
LSI Architects’ visitor centre in Cley in the Norfolk marshes works hard not to be noticed
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FeaturesAnyone for Hopkins?
With the National Tennis Centre in south-west London, Hopkins Architects has taken a lumbering and guileless building type and instilled in it the grace and finesse of a Roger Federer. Martin Spring admires the architect’s all-round game
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FeaturesGuess who just upped their street cred
You’d expect the winners of the Housing Design Awards to be ambitious schemes. But you may be surprised to learn they’ve been built by the biggest mass developers and the smallest social landlords. Martin Spring celebrates some of the best entries and, on page 50, revisits a trailblazing former winner.Photographs ...
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FeaturesOhio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery
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NewsFoster reveals trio of towers for Vauxhall
Development of three mixed-use towers by Reuben Brothers is expected to be submitted for planning next month
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FeaturesThe law machine
Britain’s biggest court complex since the Royal Courts of Justice is opening in Manchester …