All articles by Martin Spring – Page 4
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FeaturesDazzling achievement
Martin Spring heads to the Wirral to see how Wallasey’s pioneering solar school is holding up, 46 years after it was built. Then, on page 50, find out how the 21st century does solar in the first of a series on renewable technologies
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FeaturesRoyal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime
No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …
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FeaturesMasdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...
For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how
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NewsUK's biggest court opens doors to Lord Chancellor - images
Lord Falconer praises design of the £113m Manchester Civil Justice Centre by architect Denton Corker Marshall
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FeaturesSaving St George
Purcell Miller Tritton’s lavish £22m restoration has returned Liverpool’s grade I-listed St George’s Hall to its glorious past – just with fewer prisoners and hopefully more tourists.
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FeaturesWonders & blunders
With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …
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FeaturesLost in space
Surface Architects’ conversion of Birkbeck College’s film and media research centre is a complex sculpture that breaks down distinctions between walls, floors and ceilings, opening it up to all manner of interpretations. Martin Spring makes one or two
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FeaturesFind me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building
For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building
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FeaturesA mind blowing evening ...
Derren Brown added his mystifying presence to last week’s construction industry Oscars
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FeaturesThey are the champions
This year, for the first time, the Building Awards included the Building Project of the Year, for the best completed scheme. Martin Spring reviews the five runners-up and the winner, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium
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FeaturesRecordamos
Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack
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NewsThe new international
Making the news Andy von Bradsky is taking PRP Architects into China (and Sainsbury’s)
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FeaturesFlood management: The water’s lovely
The UK faces a future of devastating floods, like the one that hit Boscastle three years ago. But instead of fighting them, some people are suggesting we learn to live with them.
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FeaturesVeiled in emeralds: Zürich museum
This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism
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FeaturesA different beast
Aintree’s makeover doesn’t have much in common with the troubled Ascot redevelopment – or any other stadium for that matter. Martin Spring checks out the view from BDP’s flamboyant grandstands
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NewsAfter a century, Hampton Court gets an extension
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £2.4m visitor centre is opened by the Prince of Wales
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FeaturesReligious conversion
Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.
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FeaturesThe digi-box
Want a three-storey extension to a grade II-listed building in less than a day? Or a house that’s been digitally manufactured to be as easy to assemble as an Airfix model? Martin Spring visits two projects that are taking off-site manufacture to the next level
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