All articles by Martin Spring – Page 4

  • Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall celebrate their new building
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    The law machine

    2007-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s biggest court complex since the Royal Courts of Justice is opening in Manchester …

  • Hi-tech features will include driverless taxis on overhead monorails and photovoltaic cells in the awnings
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    Masdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Libeskind’s jagged, teetering forms in Toronto’s museum extension were inspired by gems housed its collection
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    Royal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • Manchester Civil Justice Court
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    UK's biggest court opens doors to Lord Chancellor - images

    2007-05-31T13:13:00Z

    Lord Falconer praises design of the £113m Manchester Civil Justice Centre by architect Denton Corker Marshall

  • Looking up at the dazzling, restored semicircular concert hall
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    Saving St George

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    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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    Wonders & blunders

    2007-05-18T00:00:00Z

    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 …

  • The reception lobby spreads out between a wavy curtain wall and internal murals
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    Find me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building

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    Lost in space

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Some 1,850 building industry professionals descend into the Great Hall of London’s Grosvenor House hotel for the annual Building Awards
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    A mind blowing evening ...

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Derren Brown added his mystifying presence to last week’s construction industry Oscars

  • Emirates Stadium, north London
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    They are the champions

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Von Bradsky (shown speaking) and Battersby (far left)
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    The new international

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Making the news Andy von Bradsky is taking PRP Architects into China (and Sainsbury’s)

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    Recordamos

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Madrid has unveiled a memorial that preserves the experiences of those present at Europe’s worst post-war terrorist attack

  • A futuristic vision proposed by Barker and Coutts Architects
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    Flood management: The water’s lovely

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
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    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism

  • The new extension blends a modern window wall with a traditional hipped roof
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    After a century, Hampton Court gets an extension

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley’s £2.4m visitor centre is opened by the Prince of Wales

  • The theatrical new grandstands sit in the gaze of Aintree's famous statue of the Grand National’s only triple winner, Red Rum
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    A different beast

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    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

  • The first frame was lifted on to the site on Sunday evening
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    Religious conversion

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Replacing a kiosk at St Paul’s Cathedral demanded an intricate, well-prepared crane operation – wings and prayers didn’t come into it.

  • The prototype Digital House was erected at the Architecture Foundation’s gallery in four days. It now awaits cladding
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    The digi-box

    2007-03-09T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Prague Library exterior
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    Image: Prague's National Library

    2007-03-06T10:58:00Z

    Future Systems and Kaplicky win £60m scheme

  • Romford's new PFI hospital is arranged in four drums above a deep-plan podium, with an attached administrative drum
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    In clover

    2007-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Romford can’t believe its luck. The Essex town’s new hospital is a 939-bed giant with a state-of-the-art cancer centre and a compact four-leaf clover layout that helps staff to save lives.